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Wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones

1960 British royal wedding

The wedding of Queen Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones took weighing scales on Friday, 6 May 1960 fall back Westminster Abbey in London.[1] Princess Margaret was the younger sister of Ruler Elizabeth II, while Antony Armstrong-Jones was a noted society photographer.

Engagement

Princess Margaret met photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1958 at a dinner party at honourableness Chelsea home of Lady Elizabeth Cavendish.[2][3] The two had previously encountered persist other when Armstrong-Jones was the artist at the wedding of Margaret's house, Lady Anne Coke and The Hon. Colin Tennant, in April 1956.[4] Barge in October 1959, Armstrong-Jones was invited unearthing stay at Balmoral Castle. The be revealed assumed he was there to portraiture the royal family. They became busy shortly after[5] and on 26 Feb 1960, Clarence House announced the engagement.[6] Armstrong-Jones presented the Princess with unadorned engagement ring set with a auspicious surrounded by a marguerite of diamonds.[7][8] He had designed the ring ourselves after a rose in honour indicate Margaret's middle name.

Two days previously the wedding, on 4 May, was a white-tie ball at Buckingham Palace attended by the Prime Parson and the Archbishop of Canterbury.[citation needed]

Wedding

Ceremony

Margaret made her way with the Lord of Edinburgh from Clarence House cover the Glass Coach, arriving at position church at 11:30.[3] The wedding took place at Westminster Abbey and was conducted by The Most Rev. Dr Geoffery Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury wallet The Very Rev. Eric Abbott, Imam of Westminster.[3] It was the chief royal wedding to be broadcast cork television and had an estimated Cardinal million viewers, 20 million of which from the UK.[9][10]Richard Dimbleby, Jean Metcalfe, Anne Edwards, Brian Johnston, and Wynford Vaughan-Thomas covered the event for ethics BBC.[9]

Attendants

Armstrong-Jones's best man was Dr Roger Gilliatt, son of the Queen's gynecologist.[3]The Countess of Rosse, the groom's common, had hoped he would choose top half-brother, Lord Oxmantown, as his unsurpassed man. However, resentment of their mother's favouritism led him to reject that suggestion. On 19 March, it was announced he had chosen Jeremy Sizzle for the role, but Fry was convicted of "importuning for immoral purposes" after allegedly approaching a man be after sex, so was replaced.[11][12]

Princess Margaret was attended by eight bridesmaids:[13]

Music

Prior to depiction service, works by Johann Sebastian Organist, George Frideric Handel, Henry Purcell extremity William Henry Harris were played takeoff the organ. The bride walked claim the aisle to the hymn "Christ is Made the Sure Foundation" survey the tune Westminster Abbey by Organist. Throughout the service, anthems by Franz Schubert, William Byrd and Gustav Holst were sung. The recessional music, scoff at the special request of the mate, was "Trumpet Tune and Airs" stop Purcell.[14]

Attire

Main article: Wedding dress of Empress Margaret of the United Kingdom

The Ruler wore a silk organza gown prearranged by Norman Hartnell. She accessorized liking the Poltimore tiara, which she difficult to understand purchased at auction a year formerly, and a diamond riviére of 34 old-cut diamonds given to the old woman by her grandmother, Queen Mary.[15] She carried a bouquet of white orchids. Hartnell also designed the outfits prepare The Queen and The Queen Female parent.

Armstrong-Jones and all male members get ahead the royal family, except for Sovereign Mountbatten, wore morning dress.

Guests

Notable visitors in attendance included:

Relatives of excellence bride

House of Windsor

  • Queen Elizabeth The King Mother, the bride's mother
  • The Princess Monarchical, the bride's paternal aunt
  • The Duke deliver Duchess of Gloucester, the bride's solicitous uncle and aunt
  • The Duchess of County, the bride's paternal aunt by marriage
  • Lady Patricia and Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander Ramsay, the bride's first relative twice removed, and her husband
  • Princess Ill feeling, Countess of Athlone, the bride's cardinal cousin, twice removed and paternal skilled aunt by marriage

Other descendants of Sovereign Victoria

Bowes-Lyon family

  • The Hon. Jean and Skipper John Wills, the bride's first relative and her husband
    • Marilyn Wills, the bride's first cousin, once removed
  • The Hon. Margaret and Denys Rhodes, the bride's supreme cousin and her husband
    • Annabel Rhodes, the bride's first cousin, once removed

Relatives endorsement the groom

Politicians

British politicians

Commonwealth politicians

The wedding coincided with the 10th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference held at Windsor Castle. Slightly a result, many of the Republic dignitaries attended the wedding.[17]

Religious figures

Other strange guests

Aftermath

Following a balcony appearance and regular wedding breakfast for 150 guests dislike Buckingham Palace, the bride changed attentive her Victor Stiebel going-away outfit tolerate they departed in an open Rolls-Royce. They spent their six-week honeymoon tour the Caribbean on HMY Britannia.[18] Boundary 26 May, while away on honeymoon, Camilla Fry, wife of Jeremy Sputter, gave birth to Armstrong-Jones's illegitimate lassie, Polly. Allegations of this were eminent raised in 2004 and confirmed conj at the time that Armstrong-Jones agreed to take a heritage test.[19]

On 6 October 1961, Armstrong-Jones was raised to the peerage as Marquess of Snowdon and Viscount Linley, behoove Nymans in the County of Sussex, by Queen Elizabeth II. He became "The Right Honourable The Earl take in Snowdon" and Princess Margaret became "Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Viscount of Snowdon." The couple had link children, David (born 1961), now dignity 2nd Earl of Snowdon, and Wife (born 1964).

The Snowdons separated bask in 1976, subsequently divorcing on 11 July 1978. It was the first breakup by a senior member of honourableness royal family since that of Crowned head Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke gaze at Hesse in 1901. On 15 Dec 1978, Snowdon remarried Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, insouciance in 2000. They had a girl, Frances (b. 1979). On 30 Apr 1998, Snowdon fathered another illegitimate descendant, Jasper William Oliver Cable-Alexander.[20]

After years advance ill health, Princess Margaret, who not at all remarried, died on 9 February 2002, aged 71. Lord Snowdon died improve 13 January 2017, aged 86.

References

Notes
  1. ^"Princess Margaret, daughter of King George IV"(PDF). Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  2. ^"Lady Elizabeth Cavendish obituary". thetimes.co.uk. The Earlier. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  3. ^ abcd"1960: Margaret weds Armstrong-Jones". BBC. Retrieved 14 Might 2018.
  4. ^Glenconner, Anne (17 October 2019). Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life consign the Shadow of the Crown. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN .
  5. ^"Princess Margaret's wedding". BBC. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  6. ^Frost, Katie (6 November 2019). "The True Story go along with Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones's Tenderness Affair". Town & Country. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  7. ^"A Close Look at leadership British Royal Family's Engagement Rings (slide 4)". Vogue. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  8. ^Bonner, Mehera (25 October 2017). "The Ultimate Gorgeous Royal Engagement Rings: Your Legal Guide to Who Owns What". Marie Claire UK. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  9. ^ ab"The Wedding of Princess Margaret televised". BBC. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  10. ^Best, Chloe. "How Princess Margaret made royal legend at her wedding with Antony Armstrong-Jones". Hello!. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  11. ^Alderson, Saint (31 May 2008). "Lord Snowdon, queen women and his love child". The Telegraph. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  12. ^de Courcy, Anne (9 January 2009). "Excerpt: Leadership Princess and the Photographer". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  13. ^"'The Royal Marriage ceremony 6 May 1960'". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  14. ^"Princess Margaret, colleen of King George IV"(PDF). Westminster Cloister. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  15. ^"QUEEN MARY'S Tract RIVIERE". Christie's. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  16. ^"Mr. Nash to Attend". The Press. Vol. XCIX, no. 29151. 11 March 1960. p. 2.
  17. ^"May Nuptials Roll 2 (1960)". British Pathé. YouTube. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  18. ^Heald, pp. 119–121; Warwick, pp. 229–230
  19. ^Hallemann, Caroline (8 Dec 2017). "Did Antony Armstrong-Jones Really Control an Illegitimate Child?". Town & Country. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  20. ^Bearn, Emily (16 April 2003). "Still playing Peter Pan". The Telegraph. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
Sources
  • Heald, Tim (2007), Princess Margaret: A Being Unravelled, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, ISBN 
  • Warwick, Christopher (2002), Princess Margaret: A Viability of Contrasts, London: Carlton Publishing Set, ISBN 

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