Es probable que hubiesen sido felices de haber podido casarse y fundar su propia familia. Maggie no sólo amaba a Peter, también le admiraba y le respetaba: son buenos mimbres para hacer el cesto. Él le aportaba serenidad y equilibrio, así que ella nunca se hubiese convertido en una "pin-up princess" ni una "jet princess" como ocurrió durante su -sinuoso y retorcido aparte de tormentoso...- matrimonio con Tony.

Junto a esta maravillosa fotografía de Margaret de webshots, tenemos esta leyenda.

Está en inglés.




Two years after her sister's coronation, Margaret became embroiled in a public scandal over her wish to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend, a Royal Air Force pilot and Battle of Britain hero who had been a trusted member of the Royal Household as an equerry to her father and sister. Sixteen years the Princess' senior, Townsend was also a divorc�, which, in the eyes of the government and the Church of England, made him an unsuitable husband for a Royal Princess, despite the fact that he had been the innocent party in his divorce from Rosemary Pawle, who had committed adultery. Although Margaret could have married Townsend with Parliamentary approval once she turned 25, she was informed that doing so would force her to give up her title, her Civil List allowance, and her place in the line of succession. It was also suggested, entirely incorrectly, that she would be forced to leave the country. Under great pressure, not least because her role as a royal princess was virtually the only identity she had, and taking advice from the Archbishop of Canterbury and senior politicians, she decided not to marry Townsend. She made a public announcement, reportedly partly crafted by Townsend himself, in which she stated that her decision had been made out of loyalty to the Crown and out of consciousness of the Church's teaching on the "indissolubility of Christian marriage." In reality, however, papers released in 2004 indicate that, had she married Townsend, she could not have been legally deprived of her title or her Civil List allowance. The only conditions should she decide to marry Townsend were that she would be removed from the line of succession and that any wedding would have to be civil rather than religious. Margaret and her sister had been misled by courtiers and politicians who were either still deeply fearful of potential marital scandal 20 years after the abdication of Edward VIII or simply determined to maintain the status quo, regardless of the personal and emotional effects. After some more romantic interests, including future Canadian Prime Minister John Turner, on 6 May 1960, Margaret married the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, son of Ronald Armstrong-Jones and his first wife, Anne Messel, later Countess of Rosse, at Westminster Abbey. She reportedly accepted his proposal a day after learning from Peter Townsend that he intended to marry a young Belgian woman.

_________________

Somos unas románticas empedernidas

_________________

Adorable

_________________

_________________

Muy adorable

Guapa y sexy:

Un poquito de lectura sobre el matrimonio Margaret y Tony...




The inside story of how Lord Snowdon's marriage to Princess Margaret turned into open war

Leer Artículo

_________________

Me van a perdonar si piensan que estoy loca. Pero encuentro a la joven Margaret, la de antes de Tony, con un muy gran aire de familia a Helen Mirren, quien hizo de Elizabeth II.
Era una belleza.

Sabbatical, del mismo libro del que sale la información del artículo que has posteado sale también esta maravillosa anécdota.

Para entenderla, hay que saber que Tony Armstrong-Jones tenía fama de bisexual, algo que me imagino que irritaría a Margaret, más que nada por no soportar no ser el centro del universo para todos los que tuviera alrededor.

Una vez en una fiesta en Nueva York alguien le preguntó por la Reina. Ella, haciendo uso de su lengua de doble filo, contestó: "¿Cuál Reina? ¿Mi hermana, mi madre o mi marido?".

Por cierto, como catedrático en apodos royal os informo (para vuestra administración y gobierno) que el de la princesa Margaret Rose era "Margo", no Maggie que es diminutivo más de cocinera o cupletista.

Y ahora, unas fotitos para alegrar la pestaña.

Preciosa imagen de la princesa de soltera, colgada en su día por Ademar, el Gran Chambelán de GREMB.




Retrato de Cecil Beaton, de la misma serie que uno que habéis puesto antes.



Foto del compromiso de Tony y Margo, sacada de una bobina de British Pathé.

Preciosas fotos, Octavius... que lástima que no tuviéramos en su día la de Bermudas (ó Barbados) para tu fantástico panel de GREMB, el del cartoon de Margarita (Ex Maggie para nosotros a partir de YA )


Cada día estoy mas enganchada al culebrón de este matrimonio. You look like a jewish manicurist and I hate you, es que tendrían que hacer una película, una gran película...!

_________________

Vuelvo a ejercer de Master of the Nicknames (Catedrático del Apodo) para recordaros que el apodo de Isabel II es Lilibet, no Lilibeth.

Lilibet es como llamaba la pequeña Margaret Rose a su hermana con su lengua de trapo, porque no sabía decir Elizabeth bien.

Mirad el título de este libro, que aporto al Jurado como Prueba A.