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...free-lancing photographer, who until only recently has had his critics. Once the bloom was off the groom, Britain's royalty-revering public made it plain that it was watching ex-Playboy Tony with a tolerant but suspicious eye, intent on making sure he did right by their Meg. Trouble was, there was little publicly that he could do. Royal protocol made working for a living unthinkable, and Tony had no wealth of his own, so Parliament upped his wife's allowance from $16,800 to $42,000, and Tony had to move into...
...housetops. His name: Thomas Albert Cronin, 44. His former employer: Mr. Antony Armstrong-Jones, an ex-photographer and present husband of Princess Margaret. On a double-truck spread in the weekly People, Cronin poured out the reasons he left his royal job after only 25 days at Tony and Meg's Kensington Palace residence. With butlerian unctuousness, Cronin declares that the exposé is for him "a painful task" but necessary to preserve the "dignity of the royal family and my own reputation...
...estimated 300 million throughout the world on live and taped TV (see SHOW BUSINESS). Outside the Abbey, a quarter-million loyal Britons lined the processional route, greeting every glimpse of the royal couple with cheers, hurrahs and choruses of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. When Meg and Tony emerged from Buckingham Palace after the wedding breakfast, the whole royal family pelted them with confetti and rose petals. In the lead was Queen Elizabeth, who had sat glum and stony-faced through the Abbey ceremony but now flung roses as riotously...
...likely to remain so. and it is doubtful that his informal tastes are suited to the horsy, dog-loving ceremonial round of royal family life. Nor does it seem any more possible for Princess Margaret to be transformed into a citizen of Tony's former bohemian world. Meg has only half a dozen formal dates to fill on her calendar, and it is expected that her pretty cousin, Princess Alexandra, will take on more and more of the royal duties that Margaret used to perform...
...Meg's taxable income has been raised from $16,800 to $42,000 a year. When she returns, she will move into a modest Georgian house known as a "Grace and Favor'' residence at Kensington Palace. Here, in the first home of her own she has ever known. Margaret will have to get used to such wifely chores as housekeeping and decorating. Tony is to have a darkroom and a do-it-yourself workshop in the basement, and both are expected to live quietly for a time, as befits newlyweds. Thus last week, the fairy tale ended...