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His will ignored the Succession to the Crown Act 1543, excluded both Mary and Elizabeth from the succession, and instead declared as his heir Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry VIII's younger sister Mary Tudor, Queen of France.
- 17 November 1558 –, 24 March 1603
- Anne Boleyn
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. She was the younger sister and only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Princess Margaret of York, 21 August 1930, Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland
- Windsor
- 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...
- Sydni Ellis
Jun 30, 2020 · Formally the Countess of Snowdon, Princess Margaret Rose Windsor was the younger sister (and only sibling) of Her Majesty. The two girls shared parents George VI and Queen Elizabeth—aka the...
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Sep 14, 2022 · Lilibet was to become Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and one of the most significant women in history. Margaret, a girl with a sparkling wit and a craving for the spotlight, would spend the rest of her life in her beloved sister's shadow. Their differences could have driven them apart.
- Rebecca Armitage
Jun 1, 2022 · Her full title is Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, and she became second in line for the throne behind her sister in 1936 when she was only six years old, after her uncle, King Edward...
Jan 31, 2015 · Elizabeth Tudor was born on 7 September 1533 at Greenwich Palace. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Henry had defied the papacy and the Holy Roman Emperor to marry Anne, spurred on by love and the need for a legitimate male heir. ( Queen Elizabeth’s Family Tree)
