Puteri Margaret kerajaan Britain

Princess Margaret, secara lengkap Princess Margaret Rose Windsor, countess of Snowdon, (lahir 21 Ogos 1930, Istana Glamis, Scotland - meninggal 9 Februari 2002, London, England), raja Britain, puteri kedua Raja George VI dan Ratu Elizabeth (dari 1952 Ratu Elizabeth, Ibu Ratu) dan adik perempuan Ratu Elizabeth II. Dia berjuang sepanjang hidupnya untuk mengimbangi semangat bebas dan perangai seni dengan tugasnya sebagai anggota keluarga kerajaan Britain.

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Pada tahun 1961, Book of the Year menerbitkan biografi Puteri Margaret Rose, saudari Ratu Elizabeth

Margaret adalah anggota pertama keluarga kerajaan dalam 300 tahun yang dilahirkan di Scotland, di kerusi keluarga ibunya di Istana Glamis. Pendidikannya diawasi oleh ibunya, dan dia dan kakaknya dipercayakan kepada seorang gabenor. Margaret menunjukkan minat awal terhadap muzik dan mengambil pelajaran piano dari usia empat tahun. Dia berusia enam tahun ketika bapa saudaranya, Raja Edward VIII, melepaskan diri, dan ayahnya menjadi raja. Setelah itu, Puteri Elizabeth, sebagai pewaris takhta, mendapat pendidikan terpisah, sementara Margaret melanjutkan di bawah pengawasan ibunya. Di samping itu, dia diharuskan untuk mengambil bahagian dalam kegiatan awam.

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.