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BACH AND HAYDN: MUSICAL OFFERINGS FIT FOR A KING. An instrumental ensemble from the Handel and Haydn Orchestra plays landmark works written for King Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria. With Grant Llewellyn, directing J.S. Bach’s The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (Super Thema Reale) and Haydn’s “Emperor” String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 3. Saturday, March 1 at 3 p.m. Tickets $9-$56, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...
...with a cigarette holder and cocktail shaker--and making a second home on the Caribbean island of Mustique. A 1960 marriage to photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, later Lord Snowdon, ended in divorce in 1978. But before it did, she carried on a five-year caprice with landscape gardener Roddy Llewellyn, who was 17 years younger. The British press was inflamed. Some years later, Princess Diana picked up the torch. --By Richard Lacayo...
Hammond is survived by his three daughters Florence Hammond Phillips, Anstiss Hammond Kruek, and Elizabeth Hammond Llewellyn, five grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren...
...press did not report on Margaret's private life. But Fleet Street turned against her all the same, complaining that she was rude, free spending and neglectful of royal duties. When she made a final lunge for unsuitable romance, the tabloids pounced. In 1973 she took up with Roddy Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 17 years her junior. The papers published a photograph of the two capering on Mustique. The charade of her marriage collapsed entirely, though she and Snowdon did not formally split until...
Margaret's affair with Llewellyn ended not long after. But eventually the British press and public softened toward her. Compared with the present generation of royals, her misadventures started to seem quaint. By that time, the years of heavy smoking and single-malt Scotch had begun to take their toll, but by that time too, she had lived a vivid life. It tells you something that she called her house on Mustique Les Jolie Eaux (Happy Waters). No doubt she was a woman made miserable by the confines of royalty. She also made merry within them...