Prinsesa Margaret British hari

Si Princess Margaret, sa buong Prinsesa Margaret Rose Windsor, hindi inaasahan ng Snowdon, (ipinanganak noong Agosto 21, 1930, Glamis Castle, Scotland — namatay noong Pebrero 9, 2002, London, England), maharlikang British, ang pangalawang anak na babae nina King George VI at Queen Elizabeth (mula 1952 Queen Elizabeth, ang Queen Ina) at ang nakababatang kapatid na babae ni Queen Elizabeth II. Siya ay nagpupumiglas sa buong buhay niya upang mabalanse ang isang independiyenteng espiritu at artistikong pag-uugali sa kanyang mga tungkulin bilang isang miyembro ng maharlikang pamilya ng Britain.

Prince William at Catherine Middleton: Ang Royal Wedding ng 2011: Princess Margaret at Antony Armstrong-Jones

Noong 1961 inilathala ng Aklat ng Taon na isang talambuhay ni Princess Margaret Rose, kapatid ni Queen Elizabeth

Si Margaret ay ang unang miyembro ng maharlikang pamilya sa mga 300 taon na ipinanganak sa Scotland, sa upuan ng pamilya ng kanyang ina ng Glamis Castle. Ang kanyang edukasyon ay pinangangasiwaan ng kanyang ina, at siya at ang kanyang kapatid na babae ay ipinagkatiwala sa isang kalakal. Nagpakita si Margaret ng maagang interes sa musika at kumuha ng mga aralin sa piano mula sa edad na apat. Siya ay anim na taong gulang nang ang kanyang tiyuhin na si Haring Edward VIII, nagdukot, at ang kanyang ama ay naging hari. Pagkatapos nito, si Princess Elizabeth, bilang tagapagmana sa trono, ay nakatanggap ng isang hiwalay na edukasyon, habang si Margaret ay nagpatuloy sa ilalim ng pangangasiwa ng kanyang ina. Bilang karagdagan, siya ay kinakailangan na makilahok sa pampublikong pakikipagsapalaran.

Margaret, who became known for her glamour and beauty, displayed an early love for nightlife and the arts. When she was in her early 20s, she fell in love with Group Capt. Peter Townsend, a war hero who had served as an equerry to her father. Their romance became public knowledge when Margaret was seen brushing lint off Townsend’s jacket at her sister’s coronation in 1953. Although Townsend and Margaret wished to marry, the fact that he was divorced made the marriage unsuitable, and Margaret gained worldwide sympathy in 1955 when she publicly renounced their plans to wed.

Margaret was already a fixture on London’s social and arts scene when she began secretly seeing photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1958. The announcement of their engagement in February 1960 caught many by surprise. They were married on May 6, 1960, in the first royal wedding to be televised. (Armstrong-Jones was created earl of Snowdon in 1961.) The marriage was at first successful, and they had two children: David, Viscount Linley, born in 1961, and Lady Sarah, born in 1964. By the 1970s, however, the couple had grown apart. Both of the Snowdons engaged in public love affairs, and the princess scandalized conservative monarchists, cultivating friendships and romances among actors, writers, ballet dancers, and artists. She spent much of her time on the Caribbean island of Mustique, in the Grenadines. When her long-standing affair with Roddy Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 17 years her junior, was exposed in 1976, she lost public sympathy, and her volatile marriage finally ended in 1978, the first divorce in the British royal family in 400 years.

Eventually her extensive charitable work, combined with a new, more modern sympathy for the restricted options she faced, gained her a measure of public respect. Princess Margaret, who smoked and drank heavily throughout her adult life, was often in ill health. She had surgery for possible lung cancer in 1985 (the tissue proved to be benign) and later suffered a series of strokes.