Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Netflix releases trailer for season 3 of The Crown
Netflix releases trailer for season 3 of The Crown
Margaret Countess of Snowdon
Margaret Countess of Snowdon
Princess Margaret – Lover of Life (Part 2)
Read part one here. On 20 February 1958, Princess Margaret first met her future husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones. They had both been invited to a dinner party by Lady Elizabeth Cavendish. By then, Antony was established as one of the most versatile photographers of his generation. In 1956, he took the 21st birthday photographs of The [read more]
Margaret Countess of Snowdon
Princess Margaret – The young Princess (Part 1)
During the evening of 21 August 1930, a second daughter was born to the then Duke and Duchess of York at Glamis Castle in Scotland. Her elder sister, the future Queen Elizabeth II, was delighted, “I have got a new little baby sister. She is so lovely, and I am very, very happy to have [read more]
Book Reviews
Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts by Christopher Warwick Book Review
As a pre-war royal whose world was hugely circumscribed by the strictures of another age, Princess Margaret was admired as well as vilified for most of her adult life. She helped usher the monarchy into the modern world—which sometimes led to conflict and misunderstanding in both her private and public life. Christopher Warwick’s superbly researched [read more]
Margaret Countess of Snowdon
Princess Margaret still found Peter Townsend “charming” after 30 years
After her divorce from Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in 1978, Princess Margaret met her former love, Peter Townsend, for lunch 30 years after their romance ended. Princess Margaret told her close friend Lady Glenconner what she thought of Peter after the lunch. “Peter Townsend came to lunch with her and I said: “What was [read more]
Book Reviews
Book News February 2018
The King Who Had To Go: Edward VIII, Mrs. Simpson and the Hidden Politics of the Abdication Crisis Paperback – 4 September 2018 (US) & 1 February 2018 (UK) How does the machinery of government respond when a King steps out of line? The relationship between Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson created a constitutional crisis that [read more]