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...would have been an architect," reflected Lord Snowdon, 45, when asked about alternatives to his photography career. "I did architecture at Cambridge, but failed my exams." Architecture's loss was B. Altman's gain. The Manhattan department store last week opened an exhibit of photographs by the royal family's famous inlaw. While Snowdon shuttled between interviews and autograph sessions, store officials hawked his book Assignments at $12.50 per copy. "They're just photographs that reflect or record moments in life," said Snowdon. "If there is a recognizable style, then that's my failing...
While a proud Lord Snowdon recorded the event on film, his daughter Lady Sarah, 10, took to leotards for her first lessons with Dame Ninette de Valois, former director of the Royal Ballet and founder of the Royal Ballet School. Left unrecorded was the debut of Lady Sarah's mother, Princess Margaret, 44. Not wanting her daughter to get a leg up, Princess Margaret has begun taking ballet lessons herself -with the Royal Ballet's guest artist Rudolf Nureyev. "They dance together in a large studio furnished only with a mirror, a barre and a piano," reports...
...date press card. At headquarters, the suspicious cops satisfied themselves that "Tony Charles Snow-down [sic]" was not the peddler's accomplice. They issued him a temporary press card and prepared to let him go. Then someone did a double take. Hastily, Princess Margaret's husband, Lord Snowdon, was whisked into Police Commissioner Philip G. Tannian's office for a chat and an apology. That was more than Tony got from Mayor Coleman Young. On a short assignment to photograph the crime-ridden city for the London Sunday Times, Snowdon asked for an interview with Young...
...England seemed addicted to a BBC radio program called The Goon Show, which was the making of Actor Peter Sellers, among others. When the Goons got together again to do a special program for the BBC's 50th birthday, Sellers brought four "friends": Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon and Princess Anne. Another royal Goon fan, serving with the navy in the Mediterranean, sent his regrets: "Last night my hair fell out, my knees dropped off, and I turned green with envy at the thought of my father and sister being there. Charles...
...Aldwych Theater, the Natal Theater Workshop Company had one of the hits of the season with a Zulu version of Macbeth titled Umabatha. Princess Margaret paid her royal respects to the cast, and any scandal sniffers tempted to read significance into the sometime absence of her husband, Lord Snowdon, might well be discouraged by the catalogue of false rumors about her sister, Queen Elizabeth II, culled from the French press by Jean Marcilly, ex-editor in chief of France Dimanche. In Marcilly's survey, French papers have had the Queen pregnant 92 times, with nine miscarriages. She has been...