Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...princess gave up Townsend. "Mindful of the Church's teaching that marriage is indissoluble," she announced, "and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others...
That painful decision, say some who know Margaret, drove the unhappy princess into her marriage to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960. Margaret was bitter following the Townsend bust-up, and seemed intent on getting even by finding a partner whose marital status was suitable but who conspicuously lacked the usual aristocratic Establishment credentials. For this scenario, Tony Armstrong-Jones seemed perfect: well-enough educated (Eton, Cambridge) but more than a little bohemian, a trendy, fast-living commoner who dared to court Margaret by inviting her-so friends said-to a balconied flat he had rented overlooking the Thames docks...
...match between Margaret and Tony at first cheered the royal family, who were glad to see the princess, then 29, at last heading for the altar. But even before the ceremony, some royal doubts were heard about Tony's eclectic circle of friends-a lissome Chinese model who had once been his closest companion, other photographers, assorted designers and decorators and fashionable young marrieds who spent more time apart than together. Nevertheless, the wedding in Westminster Abbey was a dazzling state occasion. Apparently genuinely in love, the couple sailed off in the royal yacht Britannia to a honeymoon...
Leggy Lady. At the time, Snowdon brusquely disputed any talk of a tiff. But new signs of deep trouble in the marriage kept turning up. Tony took over a country place in Sussex, where he, Margaret and some of his pals gathered on weekends. But the princess soon tired of what she called Snowdon's "leather jacket" cronies, who bridled at calling her "Your Royal Highness." When Margaret stopped going to Sussex, Tony took fashion models along on assignments. Another reported companion, from the nearby estate of the Marquess of Reading, was the Marquess's daughter, Lady Jacqueline...
...become especially fond of gin-and-tonics. She would at times airily ignore Tony. When he invited guests to Kensington Palace, she would breeze through the room, stopping long enough only to cast a chill on the festivities. To many Britons who had learned to love the impish princess in her younger days, she had become an imperious snob who performed her chores disinterestedly. "We got all of the noblesse," groused one Londoner last week, "and none of the oblige...