Their second child, daughter Sarah, was born three years later in 1964.Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon had two children together long before their marriage began to break down.While the Netflix series sees the pair meeting at a party in 1958, Armstrong-Jones' relationship with the Royal family began the year before when he took portraits of the Queen and family at Buckingham Palace.At about 11am, Princess Margaret would take an hour-long bath, followed by “hair and makeup at her dressing table” and then dressing in clean clothes, because “as one would imagine of a Princess – she never wore any of her clothes more than once without having them cleaned".The unlikely royal couple married on May 6, 1960, at Westminster Abbey. It was also the first ever royal wedding to be televised, and was watched by an estimated 300 million people.Both of Princess Margaret's children are still alive today.He may have also been bisexual, a claim he neither confirmed nor denied during his lifetime.Princess Margaret's vibrant, mischievous personality and razor sharp wit made her a charismatic guest at any party. Then, naturally, it was off to the Caribbean for a six-week honeymoon.
He was married to Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, who was at one point married to Princess Margaret, made headlines throughout his life for his royal connections and salacious behavior. We may earn commission from the links on this page. She eventually gave up smoking, but continued to drink heavily. Princess Margaret's afternoons and evenings would vary with horse-rides, public events, visits with celebrities, and, of course, parties.The pair wanted to marry and Captain Townsend proposed in 1953, when Princess Margaret was 22.From chain smoking in bed every morning and her forbidden relationship with an older divorced man, to being the first royal to marry a commoner in over 400 years (oh, how times have changed, eh? As seen in season 3, Armstrong-Jones was incredibly dedicated to his career as a photographer and would spend a majority of his time working and out on assignment.
Antony Armstrong-Jones was the first commoner in 400 years to marry into the royal family. "Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO RDI (born 7 March 1930) is an English photographer and film maker. Snowdon was married twice. Her next serious health scare came in 1993 when she was rushed to hospital with pneumonia.In 1961, Princess Margaret gave birth to their first child, David, royal title Viscount Linley. There are no plans for divorce proceedings.”The pair moved into Kensington Palace after returning from their honeymoon, and Armstrong-Jones was given the title Earl of Snowdon a year later.At a news conference Armstrong-Jones said, "I am naturally desperately sad in every way that this had to come.”But despite the multitude of affairs and warring of wills that marred their marriage, the two were friends until Margaret's death in 2002. Princess Margaret with her husband Lord Snowdon. Princess Margaret and her husband had two children, son Linley, and daughter Sarah, but announced their separation in March 1976.
There were affairs on both sides, and many even suspected that Antony Armstrong-Jones was gay.