Word: snowdons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would-be pop singer, has been a deep embarrassment. The Queen's headstrong sister? permanently embittered, friends feel, by the royal orders that ended her romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend in 1955?raised a furor two years ago with her official sep aration from her husband Lord Snowdon. Last month criticism flared again after a flood of publicity about Margaret and Roddy at their favorite retreat, the Caribbean island of Mustique. The royal family was due for a salary increase on Parliament's "civil list," and critics, both royalist and republican, asked sharply whether Margaret was pulling...
...principal complaint against Margaret is that she has embarrassed the royal family by carrying on a more or less open dalliance with a younger man, without seeking a divorce from her estranged husband, Lord Snowdon; the two have been separated since March 1976. The princess first met Roddy in 1974 at a house party in Scotland. As her marriage to Snowdon cooled, Roddy began making ever more frequent visits to Kensington Palace, Margaret's London home. Later the princess and her new companion made a series of unchaperoned holiday visits, without her two children, to the languid Caribbean isle...
...estranged husband Lord Snowdon traveled to St. Paul's by car and sat a discreet eight rows behind the royal family during the service...
...Lord Snowdon would prefer to be known as a photographer rather than as the man who had such a tough go of it with Princess Margaret. Over the years, Rudolf Nureyev has been one of his most fascinating subjects, so when Gentlemen's Quarterly asked him to photograph Nureyev on the set of Valentino, Snowdon enthusiastically complied. Recalls Nureyev: "For three days of filming he followed us, from the makeup session at 6 a.m. until the end of the shooting. He virtually sank into the background with the technicians and cameramen." More to Snowdon's liking, it seems...
...which once saw outside light only when their occupants were wedded, beheaded, deported or deposed, today are almost constantly floodlit. Queen Elizabeth's younger sister Margaret is squired by a swinger 17 years her junior, and the princess's rift with Photographer-Husband-Antony-Armstrong-Jones-the-Earl-of-Snowdon reigns supreme on front pages and TV for days on end. Princess Anne, 25, the Queen's second child and a contender for Britain's Olympic equestrian team, cracks a vertebra in a fall from her horse and makes news bulletins worldwide...