Who is Princess Margaret in love with?

For the 20th anniversary of her sister's death, Queen Elizabeth granted Princess Margaret's lover Roderic "Roddy" Llewellyn permission to visit her burial site and pay his respects.
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Who all did Princess Margaret have affairs with?

She did have an affair with Captain Peter Townsend

Princess Margaret really did have an affair with her father's married equerry, Captain Peter Townsend, who was 16 years her senior. According to palace insiders, the affair began when the young princess was just 17 years old.
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Who was Princess Margaret's secret lover?

Often overlooked is the sombre tale of the death of Robin Douglas-Home, who reportedly had a secret relationship with Margaret while she was married to Antony Armstrong-Jones, who would become Lord Snowdon after they wed.
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Who does Princess Margaret end up marrying?

Princess Margaret's husband was Antony Armstrong-Jones, a photographer, and most importantly, a commoner. Their marriage was historic for many reasons, although their 18-year marriage was littered with infidelity.
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Did Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret get along?

“They had a love, friendship, and conspiracy that were impressive to behold,” he wrote in Vanity Fair. And when Princess Margaret passed away in 2002, Queen Elizabeth openly cried at her funeral—one of the only times the monarch has shown emotion in a public setting.
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Does Princess Margaret marry Billy Wallace?

She was still expected to marry — as were most women at the time — and considered him "somebody one at least liked." But the engagement was short-lived — Margaret ended it after Wallace told her he'd had a fling while vacationing in the Bahamas.
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Did Princess Margaret have lots of lovers?

Aside from her toxic marriage to Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon, Princess Margaret embarked on a number of affairs of the heart – including one with a gardener named Roddy Llewellyn, who was almost two decades her junior.
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Who was princess Margarets first love?

Princess Margaret's first love was Group Captain Peter Townsend. The pair met when Captain Townsend was working for Margaret's father, King George VI, as an equerry - a type of royal assistant.
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Why did Roddy Llewellyn and Margaret break up?

"He said they found each other just at the right time. They were both very lost, both felt somewhat outsiders, just not quite accepted by the family—or not quite good enough. Her confidence was really undermined by the breakdown of her marriage.
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Where is Roddy Llewellyn now?

Llewellyn now lives in the South of France, but was in London this week for the funeral of John Rendall, who was once the owner of viral sensation Christian the Lion.
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Who owns Princess Margaret's Mustique house?

In 1996, five years before she died, Margaret gifted Les Jolies Eaux to her son David Linley, who sold the property in 2001 to American businessman Jim Murray.
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Why did Peter and Margaret not marry?

The marriage eventually fell apart due to his wife's affair with John de László, whom she married following their divorce. Unfortunately, things were considerably more complicated with Peter, since divorcees weren't allowed to remarry in the Church of England, which Princess Margaret's sister was the head of.
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Did Armstrong-Jones marry Margaret?

Inside Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon's Relationship

By the 1970s, the famous royal couple had drifted apart and in 1978, after almost 20 years of marriage, they announced their divorce. Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones on the day they announced their engagement, February 1960.
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How true is The Crown?

“The Crown is a blend of fact and fiction, inspired by true events,” royal historian Carolyn Harris, author of Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting, tells Parade.com.
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What was Princess Margaret's engagement ring like?

After a failed engagement to Group Captain Peter Townsend, Princess Margaret accepted a ring from photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones. The engagement ring features a ruby surrounded by diamonds, made to look like a rosebud. Her future husband's vision was a nod to her middle name, Rose.
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Did Tony Armstrong-Jones have a child with Mrs Fry?

Margaret's lady-in-waiting, Lady Anne Glenconner, revealed in her book, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown (via Town & Country), "Tony pushed her into a divorce when his mistress, Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, became pregnant in 1978 with their first child." Lindsay-Hogg and Armstrong-Jones ...
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Was Peter Townsend the love of Margaret's life?

Group Capt. Peter Townsend, the divorced war hero forced 40 years ago by the royal family and the British Government to end his love affair with Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, died in Paris on Monday night, the British Embassy said. He was 80 years old and had been ill for some time.
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Who inherited Princess Margaret's estate?

When Princess Margaret passed away, she left her entire fortune to her two children, Lord Linley and Lady Sarah. As Daily Mail explained, “A spokesman for Lord Linley confirmed yesterday that the princess's estate was worth £7,700,176, on which inheritance tax was payable at 40 percent.
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Can anyone go to Mustique?

Getting to Mustique is still straightforward. Guests can fly to either Barbados, St. Lucia or St. Vincent where they can then board a Twin Otter flight to Mustique.
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Does Colin Tennant still own Mustique?

Colin Tennant, 3rd Lord Glenconner, the former husband of Lady Anne Glenconner, was an aristocrat and British socialite of the most flamboyant variety.
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Did Roddy Llewellyn go to Princess Margaret's funeral?

For the 20th anniversary of her sister's death, Queen Elizabeth granted Princess Margaret's lover Roderic "Roddy" Llewellyn permission to visit her burial site and pay his respects. On Wednesday, Llewellyn made the trip to see his late love's grave at the King George VI Memorial Chapel within St.
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Who is Rodney Llewellyn?

Sir Roderic Victor Llewellyn, 5th Baronet (born 9 October 1947), is a British baronet, garden designer, journalist, author, and television presenter. He had an eight-year relationship with Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Was Queen Victoria buried with her engagement ring?

Queen Victoria was also buried with both her and her husband's wedding rings.
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Why was Princess Margaret not buried?

Lady Glenconner said the late Princess had not wanted to end up at Frogmore in Windsor Great Park, where Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are buried. Instead, she preferred the Royal Crypt at St George's Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle, where her father King George VI is buried.
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Who did Colin Tennant leave his money to?

His son Cody Charles Edward Tennant (born 2 February 1994) became the 4th baron. Hon. Henry Lovell Tennant (21 February 1960 – 1 January 1990; died of AIDS), married 1983 Teresa Cormack; their son, Euan Lovell Tennant (born 1983), is the current heir presumptive to the barony.
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