A vida trágica da princesa Margaret, a jovem irmã da rainha Elisabeth (Pode 2024)
Princesa Margaret, na íntegra Princesa Margaret Rose Windsor, condessa de Snowdon, (nascida em 21 de agosto de 1930, Castelo Glamis, Escócia - falecida em 9 de fevereiro de 2002, Londres, Inglaterra), princesa real britânica, a segunda filha do rei George VI e da rainha Elizabeth (de 1952 a rainha Elizabeth, a rainha mãe) e a irmã mais nova da rainha Elizabeth II. Ela lutou ao longo de sua vida para equilibrar um espírito independente e um temperamento artístico com seus deveres como membro da família real da Grã-Bretanha.
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Em 1961, o Livro do Ano publicou uma biografia da princesa Margaret Rose, irmã da rainha Elizabeth
Margaret foi o primeiro membro da família real em cerca de 300 anos a nascer na Escócia, na sede da família de sua mãe no Castelo Glamis. Sua educação foi supervisionada por sua mãe e ela e sua irmã foram confiadas a uma governanta. Margaret demonstrou um interesse precoce pela música e teve aulas de piano a partir dos quatro anos de idade. Ela tinha seis anos quando seu tio, rei Edward VIII, abdicou e seu pai se tornou rei. Depois disso, a princesa Elizabeth, como herdeira do trono, recebeu uma educação separada, enquanto Margaret continuava sob a supervisão de sua mãe. Além disso, ela foi obrigada a participar de compromissos 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.
