Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret: why did their marriage break down?Īlthough she paved the way for royal divorces to come, the breakdown of Margaret’s marriage was received rather poorly in the British press at the time.Her relationship history was a sad one, he wrote, but it did help make the choices of her sister’s children – three of whom divorced (Prince Charles, who married Lady Diana Frances Spencer in 1981 and divorced her in 1996 Princess Anne, who married Captain Mark Phillips in 1973 and divorced him in 1992 and Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who married Sarah Ferguson in 1986 and divorced her in 1996) – easier than they otherwise might have been. Biographer Christopher Warwick has since suggested that Margaret’s most enduring legacy was establishing public acceptance of royal divorce. Margaret’s and Antony Armstrong-Jones separated in 1976, around the same time that her affair with another man, Roddy Llewellyn, was made public (and Armstrong-Jones was engaging in affairs of his own).
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(Although if the Netflix series The Crown is to be believed, Elizabeth had told her sister that she would no longer be a member of the family if she went ahead with the marriage.)ġ1 Margaret paved the way for acceptance of royal divorce Had the Queen decided to stop Margaret from marrying Townsend? Not necessarily. “But mindful of the Church’s teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.” I have been aware that, subject to my renouncing my rights of succession, it might have been possible for me to contract a civil marriage. “I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend. But just two years later, on 31 October 1955, Margaret released the following statement: The princess and Townsend agreed to the request, planning to marry when Margaret turned 25.
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Faced with an impossibly difficult decision – and with varying pressures weighing down on her – Elizabeth asked Margaret to wait for a few years. Because Margaret was under the age of 25 at the time – and because she was so closely linked to the line of succession – the Queen’s consent to the marriage was required by the Royal Marriages Act of 1772. Later that year, in April 1953, Townsend proposed to the 22-year-old princess. Margaret’s relationship with Townsend was revealed to the public when an eagle-eyed journalist spotted the princess affectionately plucking a piece of lint from Townsend’s jacket during the Queen’s coronation at Westminster Abbey in 1953. That made me think maybe she is here, because that is a classic Margaret thing to say.”ħ Margaret chose her “duty to the Commonwealth” over marrying for love “I asked her: ‘Are you OK with me playing you?’ and she said: ‘You’re better than the other actress’… that they were thinking of. “My main thing when you play someone who is real, you kind of want their blessing because you have a responsibility. “Apparently, she was glad it was me,” Bonham Carter revealed at Cheltenham Literature Festival. Following the casting of Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret for season three and four of Netflix drama The Crown, reports surfaced that the actress had discussed her part in the historical drama with none other than the deceased royal herself, via a psychic. Margaret’s reputation for brutal honesty follows her even to this day. “How unfortunate,” Margaret is said to have responded. “I’m Lesley Hornby, ma’am, but people call me Twiggy,” Twiggy replied. The princess is said to have ignored her for several hours before turning to the model and asking, “And who are you?” A popular story often cited about the royal involves a dinner party in which Margaret was sat next to the supermodel Twiggy.
Tales of Margaret’s rudeness are well-documented in the media indeed, it has been alleged that some of her staff nicknamed her ‘Her Rude Highness’.
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