Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, CI, GCVO (Margaret Rose Armstrong-Jones, née Windsor) 21 August 1930–9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and sister of the current British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. She also later held the title Countess of Snowdon by marriage.

Private life

Princess Margaret's private life was one of intensive speculation. She owned a house on the Caribbean island of Mustique, a hedonist private resort that was her favourite holiday destination. (It was designed by her husband's uncle, the stage designer Oliver Messel.) Revelations of wild parties and drug taking were revealed in a documentary broadcast after the Princess’ death.

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Mustique - Oliver Messel

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In the 1970s, revelations of an affair with Roddy Llewellyn, a much younger gardener, led to her divorce from the Earl of Snowdon, although the marriage was generally regarded as over long before the affair was made public. This was the first divorce of a senior royal since Princess Victoria of Edinburgh in 1901.

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Roddy Llewellyn - Princess Victoria of Edinburgh - 1901

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She had affairs with Anthony Barton, her daughter's godfather, and with Robin Douglas-Home, the nephew of a former British Prime Minister. Douglas-Home's suicide 18 months after Margaret ended their affair scandalized Britain. She was also rumored to have been romantically involved with musician Mick Jagger and actor Peter Sellers, although the true extent of her relationships with these two men has never been clear. According to "Margaret: The Secret Princess," an ITV program broadcast in Britain in February 2003, Princess Margaret also reportedly had a two-year affair with Sharman Douglas, the daughter of an American ambassador to the Court of St. James.

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Mick Jagger - Peter Sellers - ITV - Sharman Douglas

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