Princess Margaret Chat

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Princess Margaret's divorce from The Earl of Snowdon in 1978 was the first divorce         
  in the British royal family in 400 years.

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Princess Margaret Royal Prize Day 1951   

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Why was Princess Margaret considered a rebel?   

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Was it ever considered that Princess Margaret might marry a foreign prince?

[Curryong]

Was it ever considered that Princess Margaret might marry a foreign prince?

Some wittering from gossip columns of the early 1950s (below) didn't seem to think so. And really, the days of royals automatically marrying each other was passing quickly by the time Margaret was an adult. Perhaps a Scandinavian of the right age and income, but there weren't any eligible ones around. And several Central European monarchies, Yugoslavia, Romania etc had gone.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57239120

Margaret had a large number of British aristo contenders though she was secretly in love with Peter Townsend from her late teens to mid twenties. Foreign Princes? Well, you have to remember the war years of WW1 had left German suitors of British royals ineligible. More so after the Second WW as well, with suspicions of Nazi relatives. It was bad enough with Philip, who, because of the Mountbattens, was erroneously thought of as at least partially British. It was superficially UK aristocrats who were possibles in her shrinking social circles really. Until the bohemian Tony Armstrong Jones turned up!

[LouisFerdinand]

Some wittering from gossip columns of the early 1950s (below) didn't seem to think so. And really, the days of royals automatically marrying each other was passing quickly by the time Margaret was an adult. Perhaps a Scandinavian of the right age and income, but there weren't any eligible ones around. And several Central European monarchies, Yugoslavia, Romania etc had gone.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57239120

Margaret had a large number of British aristo contenders though she was secretly in love with Peter Townsend from her late teens to mid twenties. Foreign Princes? Well, you have to remember the war years of WW1 had left German suitors of British royals ineligible. More so after the Second WW as well, with suspicions of Nazi relatives. It was bad enough with Philip, who, because of the Mountbattens, was erroneously thought of as at least partially British. It was superficially UK aristocrats who were possibles in her shrinking social circles really. Until the bohemian Tony Armstrong Jones turned up!

It was informative to learn that Lord Ogilvy, Davey, was supposedly engaged to Margaret. 
Was he related to Sir Angus Ogilvy?

[Curryong]

It was informative to learn that Lord Ogilvy, Davey, was supposedly engaged to Margaret. 
Was he related to Sir Angus Ogilvy?

Yes, David Ogilvy, the 12th  Earl of Airlie, was the Hon Angus Ogilvy's older brother. 'Davey' was born in 1926 so he was more or less a contemporary of the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. Angus was born in 1928.

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Daily Mail: Was there more to Princess Margaret's forbidden lover Peter Townsend than meets the eye? Inside the life of the war hero who was 15 years older than her - and later claimed 'the sex-urge is a rather unfair device employed by god'

[LouisFerdinand]

Peter Townsend caused a stir by proposing to Princess Margaret. 
 

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Daily Mail: The dashing war hero who acted like a gentleman or the 30-year-old married rogue who took advantage of a 15-year-old girl? The tragic love story of Peter Townsend and Princess Margaret STILL divides royal fans decades later

[LouisFerdinand]

Princess Margaret was president and chairman of the Council of the Girl Guides' Association.   
She was patron of the Scottish Ballet.

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According to his friend and biographer, John Richardson, Pablo Piccaso wanted to marry Princess Margaret, despite the fact that the two people had never met.

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Princess Margaret carried out her first solo public engagement at the age of seventeen. She opened a new wing of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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This postcard of Princess Margaret Rose was taken on the occasion of the 1947 engagement of Princess Elizabeth.   
http://www.maryevans.com/history/11768270