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...rebounded smartly, collecting a circle of posh friends--including Peter Sellers, with whom she spent long evenings around the piano with a cigarette holder and cocktail shaker--and making a second home on the Caribbean island of Mustique. A 1960 marriage to photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, later Lord Snowdon, ended in divorce in 1978. But before it did, she carried on a five-year caprice with landscape gardener Roddy Llewellyn, who was 17 years younger. The British press was inflamed. Some years later, Princess Diana picked up the torch. --By Richard Lacayo...
...married the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, who was made the Earl of Snowdon. She told friends that she decided to accept his proposal when she learned that Townsend was to wed a Belgian woman. Snowdon introduced Margaret to an even wider world of artists, actors and writers. But within seven years, their marriage was in decay. Though they would hold things together while their children, David and Sarah, were growing up, both of them were finding companionship elsewhere. For a while Margaret found some with actor Peter Sellers. She reportedly seduced him on the drawing-room sofa at Kensington Palace...
...duties. When she made a final lunge for unsuitable romance, the tabloids pounced. In 1973 she took up with Roddy Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 17 years her junior. The papers published a photograph of the two capering on Mustique. The charade of her marriage collapsed entirely, though she and Snowdon did not formally split until...
Five years later, in 1960, the 29-year-old princess married another commoner, society photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones. He was made the Earl of Snowdon, the couple had two children and they enjoyed an active lifestyle that was unconventional for a royal at the time. There were parties with pop stars, writers and actors like Peter Sellers, a favorite of Margaret's. But eventually the constraints and duties of royalty began to irk Snowdon. After about seven years, the marriage began to disintegrate and blazing rows were common. In 1974 Margaret suffered a nervous breakdown. Four years later the couple...
Society owes a tremendous debt to the 678 Catholic nuns who volunteered for Snowdon's Alzheimer's research. These women, after devoting their lives to God and their community, continue to serve humanity by opening their hearts and, literally, their minds to scientific inquiry even after death. These nuns have much to teach us, not only about this disease but also about generosity, optimism, faith and joy. Their quiet example stands in marked contrast to the selfishness, hate, violence, greed and materialism of today's world. KEVIN KAWAMOTO Seattle...