Ziemassvētki Anglijas laukos Polesdenas Lacey apgabala atkāpšanās vieta (Maijs 2024)
Princese Margareta, pilna princeses Margaretas Rozes Vindzoras, Snodonas grāfiene (dzimusi 1930. gada 21. augustā, Glamis pilī, Skotijā - mirusi 2002. gada 9. februārī, Londonā, Anglijā), Lielbritānijas karaļa, karaļa Džordža VI un karalienes Elizabetes otrā meita (no 1952. gada karaliene Elizabete, karalienes māte) un karalienes Elizabetes II jaunākā māsa. Visu mūžu viņa cīnījās, lai līdzsvarotu neatkarīgo garu un māksliniecisko temperamentu ar saviem pienākumiem kā Lielbritānijas karaliskās ģimenes locekle.
Princis Viljams un Katrīna Midltone: 2011. gada karaliskās kāzas: Princese Margareta un Antonijs Ārmstrongs-Džounss
1961. gadā Gada grāmata publicēja princeses Margaretas Rozes, karalienes Elizabetes māsas, biogrāfiju
Margareta bija pirmā karaliskās ģimenes locekle pēc apmēram 300 gadiem, kas dzimusi Skotijā, viņas mātes ģimenes atrašanās vietā Glamis pilī. Viņas izglītību pārraudzīja māte, un viņai un viņas māsai tika uzticēta pārvalde. Margareta izrādīja agru interesi par mūziku un piedalījās klavieru stundās no četru gadu vecuma. Viņai bija seši gadi, kad tēvocis karalis Edvards VIII atteicās un tēvs kļuva par karali. Pēc tam princese Elizabete kā troņa mantiniece ieguva atsevišķu izglītību, bet Margareta turpināja mātes uzraudzībā. Turklāt viņai tika prasīts piedalīties sabiedriskās aktivitātēs.
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.
