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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...
Margaret's increasingly public outings with Llewellyn apparently led to the long-building breakup. Humiliated and angry, Snowdon-friends said-wanted a divorce, which remains a problem for the royal family: the Queen is head of the Church of England, and the Church still considers marriage indissoluble. Where civil divorce occurs, remarriage in the church is refused. Thus Margaret's uncle, King Edward VIII, had to abdicate his throne in 1936 to marry "the woman I love," the American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, and Margaret had to forget Peter Townsend...
Doting Parents. One major reason that Margaret and Tony might have agreed to a simple separation is their concern for their children. For all the couple's differences, they are both doting parents. Lord Linley and Lady Sarah will continue to live in Kensington Palace. Lord Snowdon will have unlimited visiting privileges...
...concern for the children-and a certain residual affection between the parted pair-was apparent in Lord Snowdon's comment on the separation last week from Sydney, Australia, where he is opening a show of his own photographs. He told a press conference that he wanted "to pray for the understanding of our two children, to wish Princess Margaret every happiness for her future, and to express with utmost humility my love, admiration and respect I will always have for her sister, mother and indeed her entire family." After such a sad and stormy marriage, it seemed a gallant...