A vida trágica da princesa Margaret, a jovem irmã da rainha Elisabeth (Maig 2024)
La princesa Margaret, en plena princesa Margaret Rose Windsor, comtessa de Snowdon (nascuda el 21 d'agost de 1930 al castell de Glamis, Escòcia, va morir el 9 de febrer de 2002 a Londres, Anglaterra), reial britànica, segona filla del rei Jordi VI i de la reina Isabel (de 1952 la reina Isabel, la reina mare) i la germana petita de la reina Isabel II. Durant tota la seva vida va lluitar per equilibrar un esperit independent i el seu temperament artístic amb els deures com a membre de la família reial de la Gran Bretanya.
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El 1961 el Llibre de l'any va publicar una biografia de la princesa Margaret Rose, germana de la reina Isabel
Margaret va ser el primer membre de la família real en uns 300 anys a néixer a Escòcia, a la seu de la família de la mare del castell de Glamis. La seva educació va ser supervisada per la seva mare, i ella i la seva germana van ser confiades a una institutriu. Margaret va mostrar un primerenc interès per la música i va prendre classes de piano des dels quatre anys. Tenia sis anys quan el seu oncle, el rei Eduard VIII, va abdicar i el seu pare es va convertir en rei. Després d'això, la princesa Elizabeth, com a hereva del tron, va rebre una educació separada, mentre que Margaret continuava sota la supervisió de la seva mare. A més, se li va obligar a participar en actes públics.
Margaret, who became known for her glamour and beauty, displayed an early love for nightlife and the arts. When she was in her early 20s, she fell in love with Group Capt. Peter Townsend, a war hero who had served as an equerry to her father. Their romance became public knowledge when Margaret was seen brushing lint off Townsend’s jacket at her sister’s coronation in 1953. Although Townsend and Margaret wished to marry, the fact that he was divorced made the marriage unsuitable, and Margaret gained worldwide sympathy in 1955 when she publicly renounced their plans to wed.
Margaret was already a fixture on London’s social and arts scene when she began secretly seeing photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1958. The announcement of their engagement in February 1960 caught many by surprise. They were married on May 6, 1960, in the first royal wedding to be televised. (Armstrong-Jones was created earl of Snowdon in 1961.) The marriage was at first successful, and they had two children: David, Viscount Linley, born in 1961, and Lady Sarah, born in 1964. By the 1970s, however, the couple had grown apart. Both of the Snowdons engaged in public love affairs, and the princess scandalized conservative monarchists, cultivating friendships and romances among actors, writers, ballet dancers, and artists. She spent much of her time on the Caribbean island of Mustique, in the Grenadines. When her long-standing affair with Roddy Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 17 years her junior, was exposed in 1976, she lost public sympathy, and her volatile marriage finally ended in 1978, the first divorce in the British royal family in 400 years.
Eventually her extensive charitable work, combined with a new, more modern sympathy for the restricted options she faced, gained her a measure of public respect. Princess Margaret, who smoked and drank heavily throughout her adult life, was often in ill health. She had surgery for possible lung cancer in 1985 (the tissue proved to be benign) and later suffered a series of strokes.
