ASÍ VIVIÓ LA PRINCESA MARGARITA DESDE SU NACIMIENTO HASTA SU MUERTE (Mayo 2024)
La princesa Margarita, en su totalidad La princesa Margarita Rose Windsor, condesa de Snowdon, (nacida el 21 de agosto de 1930, Castillo de Glamis, Escocia, falleció el 9 de febrero de 2002, Londres, Inglaterra), la realeza británica, la segunda hija del rey Jorge VI y la reina Isabel (desde 1952, la reina Isabel, la reina madre) y la hermana menor de la reina Isabel II. Luchó durante toda su vida para equilibrar un espíritu independiente y un temperamento artístico con sus deberes como miembro de la familia real de Gran Bretaña.
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En 1961, el Libro del Año publicó una biografía de la princesa Margaret Rose, hermana de la reina Isabel.
Margaret fue el primer miembro de la familia real en unos 300 años en nacer en Escocia, en el asiento de la familia de su madre del castillo de Glamis. Su educación fue supervisada por su madre, y ella y su hermana fueron confiadas a una institutriz. Margaret mostró un temprano interés en la música y tomó clases de piano a partir de los cuatro años. Tenía seis años cuando su tío, el rey Eduardo VIII, abdicó y su padre se convirtió en rey. Después de eso, la princesa Elizabeth, como heredera del trono, recibió una educación por separado, mientras que Margaret continuó bajo la supervisión de su madre. Además, se le pidió que participara en compromisos públicos.
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.
