Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certainly the best-kept secret of the year. From Clarence House, the home of the Queen Mother, a court circular announced the "betrothal of her beloved daughter the Princess Margaret to Mr. Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones." Who, asked nearly everybody, is Antony Armstrong-Jones...
Lucky Working Lad. He is, to begin with, a commoner, the son of Welsh Barrister Ronald Armstrong-Jones, 60, and his first wife, Anne, a sister of Stage Designer Oliver Messel. Young Tony is also a hard-working and extremely able photographer. The Laborite Daily Herald gushed: "Good wishes to Margaret and the lucky working lad she is to marry...
...five months older than Margaret), Tony Armstrong-Jones is slender, volatile, charming in manner, and not very much taller than his bride-to-be (5 ft. 2 in.). He is not stuffy, and not particularly intellectual either. His flat in unfashionable Pimlico has a laundry on one side and an antique shop on the other, and his friends come chiefly from bohemian Chelsea, Fleet Street, and the theater and fashion world. For two years Tony's great and good friend was a sloe-eyed Chinese model named Jackie Chan (now playing a "yum-yum girl" prostitute in the London...
...with the royal family at Balmoral last summer and at Sandringham this winter, everyone concluded it was just a case of "Tony's taking some more of his pictures." In contrast with Group Captain Peter Townsend, whom Margaret renounced in 1955 because he was a divorced man, Tony Armstrong-Jones maintained total secrecy about his courtship...
...wedding. One solution would be for the Queen to ennoble Tony, but short of this, precedent dating back to 1503 (when Cecily, daughter of King Edward IV, married Commoner Thomas Kymbe) would seem to offer but two alternatives to the bride: she can either call herself Lady Margaret Armstrong-Jones, or H.R.H. Princess Margaret, Mrs. Armstrong-Jones. As for Tony, he would then remain plain Mister, and their children would grow up titleless...