Word: snowdon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after Harold Wilson's sudden resignation announcement, Britain's front pages were taken over by a zinging royal marital drama. At week's end a pair of terse announcements confirmed the breakup of the long-troubled 16-year marriage of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon. A clipped bulletin from Kensington Palace, the Snowdons' London residence, stated that the two "have mutually agreed to live apart. The princess will carry on her public duties unaccompanied by Lord Snowdon. There are no plans for divorce proceedings." A spokesman for Margaret's older sister Elizabeth...
...news did not surprise the royal couple's chums; the real question was not whether the marriage was in trouble but when the two would split-and how. Margaret and Tony have been going their separate ways for several years. Snowdon, now 46, an accomplished photographer, traveled a lot and could hardly complete an assignment with a comely fashion model before the gossip columns reported a romance...
...Flame. Margaret and her husband, newly created the Earl of Snowdon, set up housekeeping in a large Kensington Palace apartment and soon became fixtures on the club and party circuit of swinging London. They had two children: David, Viscount Linley, now 14, and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, now eleven...
Before long, they began swinging apart. By 1967, stories began turning up in the columns that Lord Snowdon, then back at work as a photographer, was mixing pleasure with business. One rumored object of affection-quickly denied-was a Chinese model who recalled Tony's old, pre-Margaret flame...
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...