Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

British princess (1930–2002)

  • Fame67.2
  • Momentum15.0
  • Historical Figures rank#125
Source-basedStable
  • Fame67.2
  • Momentum15.0
  • Historical Figures rank#125
  • Wikipedia264.1K
Lived 1930–2002, aged 72United Kingdom
  • Wikipedia
    61 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1930–2002
    Aged 72
  • Known for
    The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
    1981
Summary
Updated 2026-06-21

The younger sister who couldn't marry the man she loved, then couldn't stop the press from watching. Margaret was the royal who embodied the gap between duty and desire—glamorous, defiant, and stuck in a role that gave her visibility but no exit.

Biography

About

Born in 1930 as the second daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, Margaret became second in line to the throne when her father unexpectedly became King George VI in 1936. She spent the war years at Windsor Castle and watched her sister take on public duties while she continued her education. Her father's death in 1952 coincided with her relationship with RAF officer Peter Townsend—a romance that drew intense public attention in the 1950s before she ended it under pressure from government and church. In 1960 she married photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, later Earl of Snowdon, and had two…

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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
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Not once have you hung your head in embarrassment even for a minute after those disgraceful photographs. Clearly you have never considered the damage you are causing us all.
Letter to the then Duchess of York (now Sarah Ferguson, c. 1995), as cited in Naomi Bartram "Here’s why Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
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We had to put a stop to it. Every tart in London was getting in.
On the end in 1958 of the presentation of Debutantes at court, as cited by Liz Hoggard in "High Society: Whatever happened to the last of
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
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Silly ass. The land would be much more valuable today.
On being told that George III had given the Crown lands to Parliament in 1761 in return for a fixed allowance. As quoted in Andrew Duncan
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
saidundated
Which one? My sister, my mother or my husband?
From Anne de Courcy Snowdon: The Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008), as cited in "Lord Snowdon, his women, and his love child", The
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
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You have done more to bring shame on the family than could ever have been imagined.
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Fame
Stable
67.2
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum15.0
Historical33.5
Now attention3.1
Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
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Category rank
#125
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence