The Man Who Nearly Destroyed The Monarchy
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2023
- There’s no doubt that Antony Armstrong-Jones led a charmed life-yet he also had a serious penchant for scandal. His success brought him into the stratosphere of the royal family, but he left a trail of broken hearts in his wake.
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As someone who was around at the time the suggestion that this event "nearly destroyed the monarchy" is simply not true.
A click-and-bait article This was not the case. They were both swingers It was good fodder for the newspers.
Yes, I was around at that time too. Tony Armstrong-Jones was never a threat to the Monarchy.......
The royal family liked him
I was around then too, he didn't nearly bring down the monarchy, these stupid made up articles bank on people not knowing history, the true story, Margaret was very bitchy, & a terrible snob, loved making others feel uncomfortable, I think she was very jealous of The Queen.
The island of Mystique,
Princess Margaret went
wild!! 😮😮
Princess Margaret was once asked how the Queen was. She responded, "Do you mean my mother, my sister or my husband?"
ha ha
Great wit! 😂
If TAJ was bisexual he must have f...ed full time as he made many women - men too ? - very happy indeed. Including Princess Margaret.
😂 brilliant
Yep think that's true 🤭🤭
It’s amazing when anyone in the Royal Family can find true love. In many ways, they have the life we all dream of, but in many other ways, they lead a sad and empty life.
It's not amazing. Apparently it hasn't happened since Albert and Victoria. The last one that seems to have found it had to abdicate the throne
to marry (a twice divorced American from Baltimore).
@@clambroth1923 Yes, I’m 62. I know about the history of Edward VIII abdicating for Wallis Simpson. The rule was the king had to marry a virgin so that any child born after the marriage was presumed to be the biological child of the king. That rule ruled out Wallis Simpson as someone whom Edward could marry as long as he remained king. Edward abdicated without informing Wallis what he was about to do. She was horrified when she found out what he had done. She felt he caused her to feel obligated to marry him after he had taken given up his throne to be with her. So she married him to save face. But she was very angry with him because she did not intend to marry him. Those close to the couple always spoke about how much Edward adored Wallis over the years of their marriage. But toward the end, the couple had many arguments. So it was not such a happy marriage after all.
@@clambroth1923 He was a playboy, and it is a fact that before and after he married Mrs Simpson he was sleeping around, and Simpson was 'entertaining' young men too!
@@rozchristopherson648 I mentioned "seems" to have.... because that was the perception over here, but apparently that wasn't a happy one (marriage) either.
Charles and Camilla have a happy marriage - they should have neen allowed to marry in the first place!
As Princess Margaret was never going to be Queen her marriage to Armstrong-Jones was NEVER going to destroy the Monarchy.
The monarchy will never be destroyed by H and the wife either!
When it looked like she was going to marry a Canadian commoner, Townsend, she was told she would lose her royal status and backed off the romance.
Princess Margaret was a pretty racy thing too, kept out of the papers by her family, obviously. Like, racy af
are you joking . Ofcourse it had . The Queens sister in troubles. The Peter Townsend relationship showed how sensitive the thinking and attitudes were back then.
@@johndean958 Or how Diana's divorced parents were treated at the wedding and in the subsequent photographs. The monarchy did not condone and would not officially entertain divorced people. Townsend was a divorcee.
I am glad Elizabeth was queen. She had the most self control and common sense.
Like making her five year old son, Charles, wait outside her office after her return from a long trip to Australia. When the door was opened he then had to bow or "curtsey..." Lotta self control there...
And she knew very well what it was like being married to a womaniser.
I miss her💜💜💜
That is sad, I am sure she had regrets.
Charles said himself what a cold upbringing he had.
How very sad; any child left in hospital for six months with NO visits from parents will have issues. So many attachment issues in the upper classes!
If Princess Margaret's father had lived, she'd have probably settled down with some nice old money baron and been comparatively content. She adored her father, and would not have wanted to disappoint him. His death was the beginning of her rebellious period, especially since she lost her sibling when Elizabeth became monarch. George VI would never have let his daughter, his "joy," marry that scoundrel. And she would have obeyed, because he was her father, not her sister.
I remember this, barely caused a ripple, certainly didn't threathten the monarchy
I think that most of the shagging was hushed up by the tame press.
Yes, quite so. Only salacious newsworthy to the rag print, read by his same entitled caste as a check on their entitled behaviour.
same here lol
Didn't threaten? Chuck not being able to take a divorced woman or a woman with a male trail history certainly shows how much if widely known publicly.
And I’d completely forgotten about it.
The engagement between the Earl and Countess of Snowden was super quick, though, and Margaret KNEW she wasn’t the only woman he’d been seeing. So for AAJ to have a secret kid older than David and Sarah really isn’t surprising, honestly.
He also 'went' with men as well as women.
Poor Margaret.
@@veronicacrabtreehill6608Yes, was just about to say this.
@@veronicacrabtreehill6608And your proof of that ?
@@meichong8278. In the Wikipedia article on AAJ, it states that he was a bisexual, apparently having had a number of different male lovers. It is described in his authorized biography from 2008. Having read the article, I developed the opinion that AAJ was a real piece of work. Princess Margaret couldn’t marry an intelligent and talented man who had served brilliantly in the military because he was divorced but she was permitted to marry a man who had a very questionable life style.
@@meichong8278. BTW, if you want more information about something such as this, it isn’t correct to ask for “proof.” The only way to prove it is to have a photographic record as evidence, clearly showing the person in the act. It is something that cannot be presented in such a format as this. Regardless if you were the participant, or someone else was the participant or you were an observer, no one believes anything anyone says without “proof.” The best you can do is offer evidence where the person is quoted in an article or book approved by the person in question. In this case, your best reference is the authorized biography of AAJ by Anne de Courcy.
It is regrettable for Margaret that she wasn’t allowed to marry Peter Townsend. For his part, it may have been a blessing in disguise. They were very different people.
It's such a shame she wasn't allowed to marry Peter Townsend, the love of her life! Every time another scandal of Margaret's hit the newspapers my mum would say "they should have let her marry him". These days the RF have let in much, much worse
She could have married Peter Townsend. , it meant living off an annual grant from the govt, and not being a top royal anymore, no HRH title, and life as she had known it, would have been a lot different not being a working royal, Her free holidays would be stopped. , free clothes,jewellery etc, she was also , extremely jealous of Elizabeth, her being queen ………..her annual grant would have been more than the likes of us would earn in a few lifetimes ! her position , and her title, in the royal family, meant more to her than he did..
She was allowed to marry him but had to give up her royal privileges including, I think, certain financial privileges. Anyway she didn’t want to do that .
My mom used to say the same. I saw another documentary which said she had to make a choice between Townsend and the trappings of royal life. She would also lose her title. Living as a commoner without wealth was obviously not appealing. Not sure if true.
I agree Sean
She WAS allowed to marry him. She didn't want to lose her Title. She was jealous of The Queen and would NEVER have left her position in the Royal Family. ( a fact probably well known by the Queen Mother, who would have used this to turn her away from Peter Townsend) 'Princess ' in Title. Cheap tart in reality, if you look at how she lived the rest of her life. Alcohol, Cigarettes, Many, many other men. It's not right, blaming the Queen....🤷
Birds of a feather flock together.....the two deserved each other!!!
I was a teenager when all this was going on in , and because it was the sixties everything was rapidly changing in the UK and this seemed as much a part of that as anything else , Families weren’t staying together anymore it was just looked on as fodder for the press , But I had no idea about his childhood , must have been rough for him being in hospital for months without a visit from his parents , what cold people ,
That must account for his searching for love ! Six months in the hospital and only his full blood sister could find it in her heart to visit him ! That would break a little boy’s heart and soul ! 🧸
No excuse for his parents but in the 50s/early 60s visiting times in hospitals were much more restricted. Quite often one hour on a Sunday. It was thought that visits caused too much disruption as children often cried when their parents left! Not many people had cars or phones though I would imagine Tony Armstrong Jones family had both. It caused a scandal but certainly didn’t rock the monarchy!
Was Polio contagious?
@@missp5152 People certainly believed Polio was contagious .My mother would not allow visits to the Cinema in the Summer months because she was afraid of Poilio and I am certain she was not the only concerned parent.
Yes it was then Salk made the vaccine, and it disappeared..Only to come back many many years later..@@missp5152
It is such a pleasure to be a commoner😂
Agree - there's not too much to be said for belonging to the upper crust in UK !!!
So true
Depends what kind of a commoner you are im sure. Like all cultures, common has many tiers of commonness
Yes, so true.
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
Princess Margaret was anything but an angel.
Her abuse of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs shortened her life
He was liked as I remember, and discreet. It was long before social media and he didn't blab.
He was an arse. Who are you kidding? 🤣
Unlike these days.....
No wonder he could not be faithful. His parents taught him how to be a despicable person. What a shame.
I thought the same! His father feeling the need to express his "doubts" about the marriage goes to show his lack of self awareness.
Like oh he's not suitable for royal life? Why not? Who raised him??....... OHH WASN'T IT YOU, SIR?! 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
Self snitching🤣
My FIL was so hen pecked I'm not sure he was ever unfaithful except perhsps during WWII. MILs father was apparently frequently unfaithful. My ex b
husband was a habitual adulterer. I wonder now if FIL was also an adulterer.
Armstrong-Jones's mother was a classic narcissist. He was her scapegoat and always excluded him from her family and deviced ways of showing him how she was ashamed of him. When they traveled by train, for instance, her eldest son with Earl always rode in the first-class car while Antony was made to ride in third-class with the servants and the luggage. She barely acknowledged him even when he was suffering from polio, which she thought was shameful because she was horrified at the thought of having a cripple as her child. Antony battled polio by himself, learning to walk and function as normally as possible without help from his parents.
@@jaygatsby2790 Parents can truly mess up their children.
Poor little boy...He didn't know love from a hole in the ground...@@jaygatsby2790
They all knew what he was before she married him. She could have married Townsend but didn’t want to give up her lifestyle and title.
Elizabeth wouldn’t give royal permission because of the church’s stance on divorce
@llamamama2910 again she could have given up her title and just become an ordinary person. She loved the privileges and money far more than she loved Townsend. Her choice.
@@jillmortlock8439 that would have been an act of rebellion, defiance against the crown, no?
@@llamamama2910 Edward VIII did it - gave up being King so he could marry Wallace Simpson - divorcee
@@llamamama2910Not true. SHE was given the option...if she married him she would have to give up all her privileges as a Royal. Margaret made the choice. And Townsend paid the price for his adultery with her.
The Queen really liked Tony as they called him. Prince Philip called him “ that bloody man.” 😂
Sounds exactly like something Prince Phillip would say! 😂
The man with the camera!
Philip always has dregoratary remark to say about everything and everybody while he was a well known womanizer within gaurded circle. Plzzzzzzz
He must have been a charmer. Ladies sure seemed to like him. Some were pretty loyal to him, even though he sounded like a bit of a bastard. LOL.
Prince Phillip didn't like anyone including Charles.
Wow ! His mother was incredibly beautiful. Poor guy was seriously neglected and seemingly unloved growing up.
Hardly surprising he couldn't remain faithful.....his parents and stepdaughter didn't exactly treat him properly did they ? He couldn't have known what love and care really were.
Both my parents came from broken homes ,but i couldn't have asked for more loving kind generous parents who i knew loved me ,how lucky i was to have them
Queen Elizabeth was kind to Tony. He never had much of anything. When he moved out of the castle she let him use a cottage owned by the Monarch and paid his rent for some time to help him. He only worked part time as a photographer.
..and that is a legacy I strive not to leave behind..one of no virtue, selfrespect, no selfworth, good morals or integrity. These things are more worth to me than any riches.
Threaten the monarchy? Oh puhleaze!
I think the monarchy are quite capable of destroying themselves.
That child was conceived prior to the wedding to Princess Margaret. And I doubt anyone was that shocked
you are completely out of touch with the History at that time. Divorce was scandalous, not to mention the Queens Sister was marrying a person that had children out of wed lock. Read up on Social History at that time. I am glad it doesnt matter now, but back then standards were near impossible , in any Family, let alone the leading image that was demanded from the Royal Family.
@@johndean958Anthony had a threesome with the couple while dating Princess Margaret meaning they didn’t know who the father was until more than 40 years later.
I really did feel sorry for Princess Margaret at the time that she was married to Anthony Armstrong-Jones. He treated her horribly, verbally abusing her in public and writing terrible messages to her. I'm really glad that the two children he had with her seemed to turn out all right. Anthony Armstrong-Jones seemed to be a real cad.
She had more men than Monty😅😅😅😅😅
I agree. He was quite a toxic personality. With a horrible psychopathic smirk about everything he did, too. Can't blame the woman for looking for love and affection far, far away from that! Taught me at a very young age what not to look for in a man, and what behaviour not to accept.
And, even though I disliked Edward abdicating like he did, and marrying that horrible woman, I always felt sorry for him, too, later on after she started treating him so badly in public. She was awful! He gave up the throne for THAT? I see the same look in his eyes in Harry now. Like, "what the hell did I do?" Almost like a man who can't escape because he brought it on himself, and feels stuck, or else he'll hear about his mistake for the rest of his life if he admits it out loud. Impulsiveness with regrets is a terrible prison to be in, if you can't be a man and admit you made a mistake. Edward drank himself into oblivion rather than leave. I fear the same for Harry.
@Sirius-ly ahh, so the wait continues for those hoping or wanting for Prince Harry's marriage to end thus proving their apparent belief of his marriage situation?!.... 🤔🙄🫢
Seems too many people actually want Harry's marriage to end. Don't they ever think that Harry may be happy and also don't they think about his children.
@@steph9806 any normal person with any life experience can clearly see he isn't happy, and nobody wants to see people suffer the trainwreck that comes at the hands of a psychopath! Maybe when you grow up, this gift of seeing things clearly will come to you, too. That is, if you don't have some mental health problem that interferes with maturity and normal vision!
And why isn't Margarets' lifestyle mentioned? She was no innocent. As mentioned she could have married Townsend but preferred her lavish lifestyle. So much for her broken heart.
Margaret was not allowed to marry Peter Townsend by the Queen her sister because he would have been divorced which was a no-no. Who knows if she would would have been so wild if she had been allowed to marry Townsend.
@@elaineyoung9672you are mistaken. She WAS allowed to marry him but she CHOSE not to when she found out she would lose her royal princess status. Deeply in love? Yeah right.
What's interesting is she appears to be the one of the two sisters who most took after her own mother - who was apparently not a nice person at all - quite the bitch in fact some have reported & a huge snob ! So hopefully all this heartache is not causing too much of the same in the next generation.
Phillip was a philanderer of note himself.
@Stormylucy111: Prince Phillip ? Really ? Never heard anything like that but I’m sure he cold have. Who would know ? No cell phones, social media, etc back then.
They were both at it. Margaret was a libertine and an absolute snob, just like her mother.
Margaret knew very well the state of play - she would have been part of Armstrong -Jones’s very racy lifestyle and when I say racy I mean racy. Margaret was no shrinking violet!
It is amazing how two sisters could possibly turn out so totally different having been raised by the same parents and extended caregivers.
Yet they both fell for scoundrels
That's repeated itself with Prince William and Harry William marrying the commit wife, mother, and royal, and Harry marrying the lying, money grabbing, fame hungry vengeful American
They were not raised the same or had the same temporment.
Much like William and Harry now.
Margaret had to have Elizabeth’s permission to marry, because she wasn’t 25, and the man she’d wanted to marry was her father’s equerry, a soon to be divorced man, 15 years her senior. Well “the firm” wasn’t having that, even though the Queen was inclined to allow the marriage. So, she ultimately, married AAJ. Margaret was involved in a huge scandal in the 60’s, which if it had come to light, would have caused a scandal world wide. She had many problems, impetuous, drinking, and poor judgement were many of them. Sadly.
I can't imagine why any woman would hang around for 20 years and pine for that loser and then kill herself over him. That woman had to be delusional if she really thought he'd leave his wife for her and, presumably, be true to her. She knew what he was like! It just doesn't make a bit of sense.
A very sad childhood. No wonder he didnt trust anyone or life.
Destroy the monarchy? It's been going for around a thousand years, doesn't that tell you how enduring it is?
👎👎👎👎👎👎Who needs Royalty ???????
Only because it continues to be propped up by silly royalists. It has no meaningful function except...spend our money.
Well you can go to live in Republican countries, try North Korea..@@normanchristie4524
I knew Tony in 1997, and found him to be very pleasant person. I worked for Country Life magazine as the design editor at the same time as Melanie Cable-Alexander and she certainly wasn't an editor. I also met Roddy Llewellyn, who was a gardening writer at the time.
Must have been fascinating time
your life with the royals
She wanted to have her cake and eat it, hang about with a wild crowd and be called "Your Royal Highness". Nobody would have been able to stop her from marrying PT, she just thought it wasn't worth the sacrifice and PT was certainly happier with his second wife, a well-balanced younger woman who loved her till the day he died.
Stuart I think Anthony probably had difficulty coping with his wife Margaret as she certainly had a reputation for being very status conscious . He was a talented photographer and designer but people prefer to concentrate on the less salubrious aspects of his life.
@@annewalden3795 They both knew that their marriage wouldn't be a bed of roses but probably counted on their genuine love for each other and the great sex they enjoyed together.
I think you've WAY overstated the "importance" of Armstrong-Jone's repercussions and how he negatively affected the Royal Family. He was merely blip on the radar screen. Compared to Princess Margaret prancing around with Roddy on her island, which was a true embarrassment to the Crown. Sadly, she was consumed by jealousy of her sister, and no one had ever said NO to her prior to Townsend, so she took out her anger and frustration on those around her and it destroyed her ultimately.
Actually, Anthony was a serial cheater. Both with men and women. As well as he struck Margaret more than once. He also left her HORRIBLE notes all over their house insulting her constantly.
And they all should have known.
@@ashleyleonard8148 Oh dear Tony sounds like a dreadful person and he must have made Margaret very unhappy . I did not appreciate he was so cruel.
@@ashleyleonard8148 Your evidence for your statements?
@@Volcano-Man are you talking about the mean notes reference? Their was a documentary that mentioned it. It was all about Princess Margaret. I believe it was Elizabeth and Margaret. There's one about the sisters and their relationship. I believe it was from Real Royalty or History Hit.
Margaret's famous quip:" When there's a call asking to speak to the Queen, I don't know if they're referring to my mother, my sister or my husband".
I feel so badly for his children who were in the spotlight and the Queen!!!!
He was an unwanted child. 6 weeks with polio, and his parents never came to hold him.
seems he was constantly looking for that missing love
Parents like his scar their children for life. My own mother was like his. Not upper class but just as cold and critical and mean . To the very end. As well, Princess Margaret was known to be a vile woman, painfully snobbish and very "Grand." Treating everyone with contempt. Queen Elizabeth was the polar opposite of her sister. Such a lovely, dignified and warm woman.
NB to narrator ; You don't "exasperate" a situation. You "exacerbate " it. There's a difference. Proper English is just not taught anymore. Indeed half the teachers in schools these days don't know correct English themselves.
@@trishlangford5773. Thank you , Trish!
You know that had to have a horrific trauma on him. I can’t imagine not being near my child for any reason
mmn contantly.@@MsKaz1000
Both of them were not all that. The only good thing that came out of that marriage were their 2 children.
Where you refer to Peter Sellers (the first time), you show an image of Michael Caine. Princess Margaret's affair with Peter Townshend did not end over the pressure of public life. It was much more complicated than that. It was the fact that he was a Catholic and divorced though he was married when they met. Margaret would have been allowed to marry him if she gave up her royal title but she was not prepared to do so. Exacerbated the situation not exasperated it.
LOL Peter Townsend
@@batcactus6046 Lol. L must have had the spelling of the Who guitarist Pete Townshend embedded in my brain.
Also, "relevations" at the end? I think revelations was meant.
He doesn't know how to pronounce Douglas-Home or Llewellyn either.
It all is tragic as it’s the same story as present King and Queen. Princess led a self destructive life.
You can give the what of history, you can never be sure of the why-sometimes the subjects themselves don’t know why.
Unloved children so often have trouble loving as adults.
I remember seeing Margaret partying on the Isle of Mustique with the Rolling Stones having a wild time...
John Bindon too
Terrific! Thanks! 💖
Thank you BOTH ❤❤
This video has SO many incorrect details. Armstrong-Jones was appreciated by the RF as he never disclosed/sold details of their marriage regardless of his sexuality (which they were well aware of before the marriage) he kept his mouth shut regarding Margaret who was a horror of a person.
They were awful to eachother
Have respect !
He was the Royal photographer for years after the divorce. They liked Tony..and he was a good father. Margaret was into everything that took her eye...and a good time. The Queen was a second mother to Sarah and David...who she adored.
He knew what his ‘Sexuality’ was he didn’t have a problem with it. His problem was his monogamy or lack of. Don’t try and play that gender game here these were days where people knew who they were.
Agreed.
The children from the marriage of Armstrong-Jones and Princess Margaret seem very nice and perfectly able to handle their situation in life. Although Sarah was a favorite of her aunt, Queen Elizabeth, she has chosen to live a quiet life, is married with two sons. Her brother, now the Second Earl of Snowdon, is a successful designer. Although divorced, he was married to his wife, Serena Stanhope, for 26 years. Compared to their parents, these two offspring have lived exemplary lives.
Great video…thank u🌹
How is a man having an affair depraved when Prince Andrew is in the same family.
Minty why is it necessary to judge the conduct of people we do not know ? Lord Snowdon was a man with with many gifts and his two children with his wife Margaret are both talented people .
What a horrible story and life. 😢
Yes like Harry never fun to be a spare
You Sir, unlike many who try on YT, have a lovely to listen to soothing voice. That, and the delightfully interesting content is why I'm subscribing. Thank you for creating such pleasure.
Anthoney's mother was known as "Tugboat Annie" as she went from Peer to Peer.
@rw33312 Damn funny!
Hysterical
18 years her younger... Good for her!!!
I would not blame Anthony for any of his behavior. The fault lies with his parents who opted to divorce but did take into consideration the welfare of their children at all. They only cared for their own happiness. In any divorce it is the children who suffer the most.
Children suffer in a divorce, maybe; but sometimes it is provable they don't. That aside, Antony grew in to adulthood and he could, and have shrugged off the effect of his parents divorcing - maybe did! It's known as growing up!
What happened yesterday is like a river flowing down hill, you cannot bring it back, no more than you can stop what is coming tomorrow down the road of your life. You have to deal with it, let it go and move on. He had that choice. Did he take it? We might think we know the answer, but do we?
As my Grandmother would have said, “One woman isn’t enough and a hundred not too many!” No wonder Princess Margaret looked around for comfort elsewhere.
She knew what she was getting into. She was part of that group before they got married and she was into everything he was into.
I think they were as bad as each other.
Then 1 man isn't enough.....etc. 😂
She did that long before she got with him.
Though it is true that Antony Armstrong-Jones was a lothario, he must have been a very charming one because as far as I can tell the women suffered his proclivities rather willingly. Princess Margaret probably was less willing, but fifty years ago divorce in the UK was not a common occurrence, and especially not in the royal family, so she was probably grinning and bearing it. It was remarkable that they were encouraged to divorce, which was actually for the best because it would at least correct the initial mistake of their marriage. The only good thing to emerge from that union were their children. All that being said, things were not reported with the level of detail of today, so Mr. Jones' effect on the stability of the royal family was not too significant. He was a very talented photographer and also an inventor. He designed a special electric wheelchair back in 1971 for which he received a patent. But in spite of all his achievements and all the excitement in his life, I think his life was very sad because he never had what we all need, a mother's love.
She was a good time girl who did whatever she wanted bit like mm didn’t want to give up the wealth and status of being a royal
MM gave up the royal family because she had enough of the abuse from that family. As for wealth, she was a millionaire before she married into the family so she didn’t need their money. As a matter of fact she had to spend her own money furnishing the shabby cottage Harry brought her to. And by the way MM was no good time girl that title belongs to Catherine. The press tried to pay someone to say he slept with MM but the man had scruples and declined .
Thanks for sharing... such an underrated page!
Underrated!!?? It’s mostly nonsense!
Toward the end of this story, the narrator said, "In the ongoing feud between Anthony and Margaret, they continued to engage in actions that EXASPERATED the situation." The word he should have used is EXASCERBATED, meaning to make an already bad situation even worse. The word exasperate means something very different and doesn't work in that sentence at all. People become exasperated. Actions do not.
As you seem so keen on correcting others for their incorrect English, perhaps you should learn how to spell words properly.
Exacerbated, for instance.
The story just keeps getting better... wow
his story is typical of a coreless narcisisst .it happens due to early abandonment
Nice story. Very informative.
If the press would've left the alone.... who knows. Living under constant public scrutiny is not easy or normal!
Queen Elizabeth 's wedding was televised in 1947!!!
I think it was recorded and broadcast on BBC radio. Only parts were shown on TV and in theaters after the ceremony not in real time.
Fantastic narration and riveting video! Wow!
It’s funny you mentioned the problem with a butler. Princess Margaret was notorious of her snobbery, she had bad temper and strong sense of self-entitlement that made her servants’ life hell.
A man like Antony should have never married anyone. He comes across as a person who could never settle with one person for long.
indeed. particularly any veriel men? Remember all thiese "goings on" was before the change in the British law in 1968
There have been goings on in that family from the beginning. The Mountbattens. King George V1 brothers. Duke of Gloucester had to be propped up in public sometimes because of being drunk.A lot was hidden from the public.
While scandalous for the time, this is rated G compared to what’s happening today!
This channel shouldn't have "fact" in it. Such a shallow presentation. Armstrong-Jones never even came close to destroying the monarchy. When he finally acknowledged his love child, he was so old and nobody cared. Also, he never gave up his photography and was a sought-after and respected photographer in the 1960s and beyond along with David Bailey, Terence Donovan, Patrick Lichfield, and Cecil Beaton.
He's always had a good relationship with the Royal Family, especially the late Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother, who adored him and valued the fact that he never once used the family name for fame nor did he publicly smear the royals. Everything he achieved was through his talent and hard work. His polio also made him an inventor and he holds a patent for a type of electric wheelchair.
Margaret was the problem.
I have a lot of respect for Tony because he went and talked to the people of Aberfan, a heart breaking situation. Delia Morris
Well said
Margaret allegedly cheated on him too, they were like two peas in a pod and their marriage worked for a while. And when it stopped working they got divorced, like so many other people.
I don’t think it was only her life style she didn’t want to give up. She was part of the Royal family and I don’t think anyone would give up their whole family. Imagine being told you can marry your boyfriend and live with him but you will no longer be part of this family? I would choose my family because a relationship can brake down You still wouldn’t be able to rejoin your family. ❤️
I would choose love, because if my family doesn't want me to be happy, they don't deserve me
@@user-qz3dj4sy6n She broke up someone else's family.
It wasn't a choice between a particular man and her family, it was a choice between being an official royal with all its privileges or living as a regular, if rich, person without the privilege.
@@michellebyrom6551 being a royal is a prison, you cant express yourself, you cant choose for yourself, etc
She wouldn't have lost her family. She would have lost her titles, Counselor of State, her sizeable income from UK taxes, the fancy cars, etc. She loved being fancy and titled. Made even her friends call her HRH or Ma'am.
Princess Margaret want after men in an aggresive manner. She was always overindulged so what she wanted she got. Actually, the late Queen Elizabeth liked Tony Armstrong Jones. With regard to Townsend he pulled out of the relationship with PM because she was very demanding and full of herself.she and she and the Queemother clashed all the time. She was a difficult personality.
He was a cad and a bounder. She, however, was a nightmare.
I just ❤️ it that you called him a “cad and a bounder” 🥰😍!
They had two nice kids. Not sure how. Good Nannies I guess. His parents sound really awful. I cant believe they didn’t visit him, a kid, for 6 months whilst he was suffering from polio. Man, that’s harsh. And as for Phillip, we’ll, Mr Macho Homophobe would have hated Mr Effeminate Photographer
Margaret & Anthony were actually very similar people. They were both pathetically hedonistic and selfish people . We have a 2nd generation behaviing in a similarly selfish manner. These two had two kids, who luckily were bought up by decent staff, because I can never remember a photograph with either of them with their kids.
Neither one of them was worth the powder and shot it would take to send them to Hell. But it looks like the Queen Mother was as big a drunk and spendthrift as her younger daughter.
Just like Harold, she was also an entitled individual.
Eighteen years ago, on a trip to London, I toured the Kensington Palace apartment shared by Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon. This is such a small detail in the melodrama of that relationship, but passing through the kitchen, the guide pointed out the extraction fan housing above the cooker. Lord Snowdon had designed it himself. It was an absolutely beautiful and graceful shape, in beaten copper. A utilitarian object turned into a work of art. Does anyone know who lives in that apartment now? If so, is Lord Snowdon's amazing fan cover still there?
Is this the apartment used by the Wales as a London base for work.....I read it somewhere
@@marymcdermott9581 I'm afraid I don't know.
Having met him he was polite with nice home in South Kensington. His prize possession an antique dolls house. My encounter to deliver Minox camera film.
-"Shut up and let someone intelligent talk" Priceless
Anthony was a total creep as a husband and father , shame on him a total embarrassment to his wife and his family.His kids had to get teased at school because their father’s exploits were constantly in the news paper , even his nieces & nephews teased for his fooling around with men & women outside of his marriage. He also got caught saying really nasty things to his wife in public ,because he knew she would never get granted a divorce. Well amazingly she was granted the ok from the Queen so she didn’t have to live in a life long trap of a marriage while her creepy hubs paraded in the younger men & women in her house using her money to wine & dine them.Also seeing photos of her husbands mistresses in the news wearing her jewelry and family heirlooms! That right there would have my long past granny’s & great granny’s haunting a b until they came running back to return the jewelry 😂😂😂
Margaret was no saint either to be fair. Drank like a fish , famous for being incredibly rude to servants & anyone who hosted her: & once physically knocked a camera from a journalists hands injuring him in the process ( cameras back then were huge cumbersome things). He got paid off, but someone else had got a photo of the incident.
You are absolutely right...he was really awful. That marriage destroyed Margaret totally.
@@sarahholland2600-- Drank like a fish and smoked like a chimney. In the end, her vices caught up to her and her health declined at a relatively young age. She suffered a severe stroke and spent her waning years in wretched health in a wheelchair. Her older sister outlived her by 20 years -- the product of clean living.
It's sad that people just pick awful people to date and they just don't learn their lessons!😮
Margaret was no saint either; and I don't know what she wanted with him, as he is not attractive!😒
Margaret was herself 'depraved', they were a good match.
I loved Princess Margaret and have read much about her life. Always felt saddened for her unrequited and forlorn love of AAJ, who was a cad and even abusive - a classic _rebound_ ... from Captain Peter Townsend, her true love, who she was prohibited from marrying. She deserved the love of a good man but AAJ was not capable of that.😞
If he was her 'true love' then why was she having shag-a-thons with other men whilst she was engaged to him (Eddie Fisher, for example) and why didn't she marry him - she could have - she was not prohibited from marrying the guy when she broke it off (she was over the age threshold). Doesn't sound like 'true love' to me.
She wasn't prohibited she didn't want to give up her status and privileges
"Their marriage descended into a soap opera". And my grandmother gobbled up every minute of it. My ears got quite tired of the whole shebang.
Enlightened! 😊
U learn something new every day
Princess Margaret was the "royal bike", do you understand? Focusing on Snowden's "infidelities" is somewhat unfair...
I feel like this makes things seem much bigger and more threatening to the RF than they actually were. And on some level, some of the blame should also be placed on Princess Margaret. She didn’t exactly marry Anthony blindly. Everyone in their artsy/trendy/party movement knew who he was - and Margot was part of that group. But it was a group where she could still dominate, having the highest status, something she wasn’t willing to surrender in order to marry Peter Townsend. Everyone makes choices, and somewhere along the way, PT wasn’t worth the sacrifice to PM. So maybe AJ was just the cost for her to have her cake and eat it too?
there are letters in the National Archives, Anthony Eden's in 1955 gave permission, by this time she wasn't sure how she felt
and she said "she would know how she felt when she saw him"
that isn't love
Even Townsend later said they had reached the end of the road
and Billy Wallace said "it was girlish nonsense that got out of of hand
and you don't know if she knew what Snowden was like when she married him
Indeed. Watching a biography on Margaret depicts her as a wilful and spoilt child from the beginning. Using her royal birth to get away with rudeness and incredibly bad behavior. The thing she and Tony had in common was sex. Roddy Llewellyn had to finally leave her because of her constant demands. UTube has The Real P. Margaret which is an excellent documentary. She was dating a few weeks after Townsend was lucky enough to escape her. Warren Beatty, Peter Sellers, Jagger and many more were her lovers. I'm not criticizing her sex life but the sordid group she hung around with. The British people had no idea of all this. We all felt sad over Townsend. It's the same with the "drama" of the great love story of Wallis Simpson and our abdicating king. It was no great love story on her part but the public thinks and is told of the great love of the century. Total bollocks! Sleazy people with money.
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Princess margaret desperately wanted to marry townsend but she was forbidden to do so be ause he was a divorcee. It simply was not allowed. Hence she was asked to marry her husband. It was more or less an arranged marriage.
@@margaretcastell9429And sleazy people desiring money! Wallis mat have loved Edward, but not in love with him! She jumped on for anything she could get & ended up with a life of much isolation! And with a man that annoyed her in his neediness! She had feelings for him I am sure, but she loved the money and prestige more! Most circles may have shunned her, but they could always get a warm nazi welcome!;
Antony Armstrong-Jones was the original Alfie. 🤣🤣🤣
Armstrong Jones and Margaret were an irritant to the royal family but never a threat.
I remember adults around me saying it was lucky Margaret was the younger sister as she would make a terrible queen. But I now believe that, much like Harry, she was jealous of her sister and set about doing everything she could to shock in order to get attention. As for Armstrong Jones, he too reveled in his indiscretions. Royals and their friends and spouses are just people. Some good, steady and hard working, some exactly the opposite, some somewhere between the two, but the Royal Family carries on being the royal family no matter what.
Margaret was fifth in line to the throne and, with each new grandchild to the Queen that was born, sank further down the sucsession list.
No, she was never a threat, just a silly childish, selfish woman who chose a husband who was equally silly, childish and selfish.
The press wasn't objecting to his 'commoner' status, more like another one of Margaret's boyfriends would be added to the financial burden.
His 'photographic career' was about the only task he was capable of; hanging around at parties.
Despicable people all.
He was also designed the Snowdon Aviary at London Zoo and handled the setting for the investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon in 1969. In the early 1960s he served as artistic advisor to The Sunday Times, and was the patron of a number of, predominantly Welsh, charities. His "photographic career" was a solid body of art work that should not be dismissed with quotation marks, and he did far more than "hanging around at parties". That job was left to gossip columnists like the insufferable Betty Kenward - who always referred to him as Princess Margaret AND HER HUSBAND.
@@neilmcbeath954 All 'nothing' roles
@@dshe8637 Says a nonentity.
Robin Douglas-Home’s last name is pronounced “Douglas-Hume”, despite the misleading spelling.
This channel is fantastic, content, images and the narrator, so easy to listen to and much more established facts, as opposed to rubbish content and many inaccuracies. Thank You. 😀🇦🇺
The contents of this video are well known facts, especially if you read Anne De Courcy's excellent biography on Snowdon. For a person who was a womaniser, he was a very talented person especially with his photography, probably the most accomplished of his era. He never gave up this work, though for the first two years of his marriage it was put on the back burner, but the narrator doesn't mention that he had to finance himself, he wasn't on the Royal pay role, so his photography, his design, architecture and his work for the Sunday Times were his source of income. He never fell out with any member of the Royal Family, he got on very well with them all including the Duke of Edinburgh. It may seem strange but he remained good friends with Princess Margaret until her death. It was Snowdon who introduced Margaret to people like Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland, because he was very much part of this bohemian lifestyle through his photography, before they got married. To emphasise the respect and how well he got on with the Royal Family, you only have to see the turn out of the senior Royals at his memorial service in 2017 which included the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
What a cruel, narcissistic and horrible Mother he had.
Oh - and Queen Elizabeth's wedding was televised before Princess Margaret's in 1947 (: ❤🇦🇺
Edit: The Queen's wedding was broadcast live on BBC Radio, and highlights of the wedding were also screened on television later that day (1947). So yes I suppose it isn't rong to say that Princess Margaret's was the first FULL wedding to be televised - so yes not entirely rong! So sorry (: ❤🇦🇺
Was it? I only heard it on the radio, I had a tiny plastic pram with two wooden washing pegs in it, as the happy couple, and I pushed round the floor..i was 7 yrs old then....12 before I even saw a tv set!...
@@margaretflounders8510 - lol yes I understand. I was born in '68 and luckily grew up with a black and white tv, but I have a love of history and apparantly it was broadcast live on BBC Radio (as you say), and highlights of the wedding were also screened on television later that day. So yeah I suppose it isn't rong to say that Princess Margaret's was the first full wedding to be televised - so yes not entirely rong - I may need to edit (:
Here comes the WORD, "NARCISSISTIC", the most popular word, that is on everyone's lips, it took the lead from the word "COVID" Suddenly there are a lot of Psychologists analyzing, people, with being NARCISSISTIC, so it seems Like every Tom, Dick, Harry , in fact it seems like the whole World is NARCISSISTIC, if we are to go with the SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSTS. 😂😂
Wrong
She rushed into it after hearing of Townsend’s second marriage. 😢
Just a day that ends in “Y” for this family!
If Edward VIII didn’t topple the monarchy then I’m sure this didn’t even register.
Margaret really suffered for her sister. She did her best to satisfy the rigors of her role.
They ruined Margaret's life by not allowing her to marry Peter Townsend. What harm could that have done? David Linley is twice the man hsi father ever would be. He and his sister Sarah are decent people
She was told if she wanted to marry him . She would have to lose her princess title ,and wouldn't do it .
It was how it was done then. It was the when the King married. Things have now changed but at the time it would have been a major crisis.
In spite of their parents, not because of them.
@@agnesrobertson9099 Queen Elizabeth not only ruined Margaret, Charles and Prince William (the cousin) ‘s lives!
Also I forgot about Diana
@@janetlelham2816 people tend to forget Prince William as well as The Duke of Kent. Tragic “accidental” plane crashes. 🤔
Poor princess Margaret another sad story like Diana. These women would have found happiness had they not been royals.
Philip had very good judgment. He didn’t like Anthony and he didn’t like MM.
😂😂😂😂😂true. Every racist has “good judgement”
Prince Philip was a good judge of character.
@@kinglissa2953we are talking about morals and personalities not skin color. People are much more than that or should be.
@@kinglissa2953of course you'd play the race card. Gtfoh
Philip disliked Fergie which I agree, and also thought his son Charles was an insufferable pansy, of which I also agree. But Philip was NOT a nice man either, despite the media trying to suggest otherwise.
Those seconds of my life I will never regain.
Lol 😹
Always check out the parents before committing to someone.
Princess Margaret's children seem both really decent people despite their parents behaviour . I think Queen Elizabeth was the stabilising influence in their lives.Princess Margaret was as different from her sister as chalk cheese . Elizabeth was like her father and Margaret like her mother who had a terrible reputation for rudeness and snobvery and alcohol abuse.
Princess Margaret had BEAUTIFUL blue eyes. Just saying.