A Right Royal Starter Home

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As the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge prepare to move into Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace this summer, Lisa Freedman revisits the house during its 1960s heyday, when Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon were the glamorous royal couple in residence...

Fifty years ago this spring, a stylish young royal couple were about to move into their first family home. Princess Margaret, the Queen's younger sister, and her handsome husband Lord Snowdon had recently become parents to a baby son, and had grand designs for their new residence.

Like our current charismatic young royal couple, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, their new address was Apartment No 1A, Kensington Palace.

Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones married in May 1960 and, like William and Kate, first moved into a small property in the palace, Apartment 10.

This was always intended to be no more than a stopgap, and when, a year later, the princess told her sister that she was pregnant, the Queen came up with an alternative residence.

Kensington Palace had been badly bombed during the war, and the Ministry of Works was beginning its restoration.

Behind the doors at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's apartment at Kensington Palace | Mail Online 

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