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Dec 15, 2023 · “Lilibet is my pride. Margaret is my joy,” King George VI once said of his two daughters, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose. It ended up being a symbolic remark for the relationship ...
Jun 1, 2022 · What’s the age difference between Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret? The two sisters had a four-year age gap, with Elizabeth born in 1926 and Margaret born in 1930. How old was Margaret...
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Jan 14, 2023 · Queen Elizabeth was 'motherly' toward Princess Margaret. While the two sisters were close, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret were aware of the age difference between them, and Elizabeth reportedly took her role as big sister very seriously. Their governess, Marion Crawford, described the tender relationship between the two. "Lilibet was ...
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Aug 6, 2023 · Princess Margaret Was Never The Same After Elizabeth Became Queen. Lisa Sheridan/Getty Images. By Bernadette Roe / Aug. 6, 2023 9:15 am EST. The late Queen Elizabeth II became queen on February 6, 1952, while she was abroad in Kenya. She returned to England and assumed the position of queen at age 25. It marked an abrupt end to Elizabeth's more ...
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- She Often Dressed Identically to Queen Elizabeth as A Child
- She Was "Terribly Loyal" to The Queen, Despite Some Jealousy
- She Acted in Christmas Pantomimes with Queen Elizabeth During World War II
- She Liked to Start Her Day with Cigarettes, Alcohol and A Long Bath
- She Canceled Her Wedding to Captain Peter Townsend in 1955
- She Wed Antony Armstong-Jones in 1960, Although They Divorced in 1978
- She Was Known For Her Sharp Tongue and Wild Parties
Princess Margaret often dressed in identical outfits with Queen Elizabeth when they were younger. On Mother's Day in the U.K. in March 2022, The Royal Family Instagram account shared a beautiful throwback picture of the sisters and their mother. In it, Princess Margaret and Queen ElizabethII wore matching jackets over collared shirts, with their sh...
Princess Margaret was close with her sister, even though they had some sibling rivalry. "She was terribly loyal to the Queen — and being five years younger, I think it would have been much more difficult if she had been just [a little] younger than the Queen," Anne Glenconner, Margaret's lady-in-waiting who wrote the memoir Lady in Waiting: My Extr...
Princess Margaret shared a love of the arts with Queen Elizabeth. When they were teenagers, a 14-year-old Princess Margaret played the Honourable Lucinda Fairfax and an 18-year-old future Queen Elizabeth played Lady Christina Sherwood in the Old Mother Red Riding Boots play. The 1944 performancewas held at Windsor Castle for Armed Forces personnel ...
When Margaret was 25, she would start her day with breakfast in bed and spend about two hours listening to the radio, reading newspapers and chain-smoking, according to an excerpt from Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown. After that, she would take an hour-long bath run for her by her lady's maid, then have her hair and m...
As famously depicted in The Crown, Margaret had a relationship with Captain Peter Townsend, who was the equerry to King George VI. This likely started when she was a teenager, and he was married with two kids. In Ma'am Darling, Brown shared that Margaret and Townsend may have already been seeing each other in October 1947, when she was 17 and he wa...
Margaret married Armstrong-Jones, who later was named the Earl of Snowdon by the Queen, in 1960. He was the first "commoner"to marry into the royal family in over 400 years. The couple went on to have two kids together: David Armstrong-Jones in 1961 and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones in 1964. However, their marriage was riddled with infidelities on bot...
Princess Margaret was married to Armstrong-Jones in the swinging '60s, where they were known for their fabulous partiesat Kensington Palace, which included appearances from actor Peter Sellers and The Beatles. "Stories about them were legion, with their star-studded parties at Kensington Palace," said royal biographer Christopher Warwick, who wrote...
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Feb 10, 2017 · Lisa Sheridan/Studio Lisa/Getty Besides a similarity in looks, the two sisters shared a love of dogs — here, they pose with two of their corgis at the Royal Welsh House. 03 of 11
Oct 24, 2019 · King George VI summed up the difference between effervescent, free-spirited Margaret and staid, responsible Elizabeth in one simple statement: “Lilibet [Elizabeth] is my pride, Margaret...
