In the European royal family, the British royal family has always been the most representative of the existence, can be described as the "hero", the British royal family is not only the country that has given birth to the queen the most, but also the representative of the European royal family, we are most familiar with Queen Elizabeth II, of course, the most famous is Princess Diana, however, in addition to them, another can be said that the british royal family's appearance represents, she is the queen's only sister Princess Margaret.
Of course, in addition to her prosperous beauty, Princess Margaret is most talked about in her life, including her love, and her "absurd" wayward behavior, some people say that she obviously got a hand of king fried, but she fought a mess, and finally became the most unpopular person in the royal family, why is this? Today, let's step into the story of Princess Margaret.
Princess Margaret, whose full name was Margaret Ross, was born on 21 August 1930 in the revival of Glarms Castle in Scotland, the son of Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V of england at the time, and elizabeth, the mother of which was from an aristocratic family in Scotland.
Margaret's only siblings were Elizabeth, who was four years older than her and later became the Queen of England's sister. Like Margaret, her father Albert was the second child in the family, who was not only introverted but also ill-spoken, while his brother David was not only the first heir to the royal family, but also very good-looking, personable, handsome and tall, and the future king of the British people, but he was completely ignored.
Perhaps out of empathy, George VI had always favored his younger daughter Margaret, who often said that Lillibert was his pride and that Margaret was the source of his happiness, because he was not the Crown Prince, so Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth lived very easily and happily when they were young.
However, their peaceful life did not last long, after the death of King George V, George VI's brother David ascended the throne as Edward VIII, but what people did not expect was that this king was a man who did not love the country, as long as the lord of beauty, because he insisted on marrying Mrs. Simpson, who had been divorced twice, which was intolerable to the British royal family, so Edward VIII announced his abdication after less than a year of reign.
Since Edward VIII had no children, he could only be succeeded by his younger brother Albert after his abdication, in 1936, when Princess Margaret was only six years old, her father was forced to ascend the throne as King George VI, and her ten-year-old sister Elizabeth became the first in line to the throne. At this point, the original happiness and peace were broken.
For those who aspire to be supreme, this is undoubtedly a good thing to drop the pie in the sky, and then, for the Margaret family, it is not a good thing, the originally shy and introverted father is forced to go to the crowd, and, in the early years, the mother Elizabeth is not willing to marry the father, until later, repeatedly assured that she could not become king, the mother Elizabeth agreed.
Unexpectedly, it was only a few years before his father suddenly became king, according to the British media, George VI shed sad tears when he heard his brother announce his abdication, and his wife Elizabeth said that he would never forgive the selfish David.
After her father became king, Princess Margaret and her sister did not go to school, but at the suggestion of their mother, invited tutors to teach at home. According to British journalist Rudolf, Queen Elizabeth never thought of raising her two daughters to be more important than well-behaved ladies.
But since his father became king, in order to nurture the future monarch, he had to invite Henry Martin, the deputy provost of the English aristocratic school Eton College, for her sister Elizabeth to teach Elizabeth the constitutional history of Britain and other situations that the British monarch should know.
Seeing the attention of many people and a better education than herself, Margaret did not feel that she was any different from her sister, so she said that she would also take classes with her sister, but the royal staff told her that she did not have to work so hard and did not have this need.
Perhaps, the staff is well-intentioned, after all, compared with the queen of the day, is not it happier to be an idle princess? Princess Margaret, however, did not think so, and she was always unhappy about it when she grew up, believing that she was not taken seriously enough.
Sister Elizabeth is the crown prince, the future queen, and naturally receives more attention. As a result, her parents, especially her father George VI, loved the little daughter doubly, saying more than once that Margaret was the most beautiful girl in the world, and that even the birds in the trees would be attracted to her beauty and sing around her.
In 1931, the outbreak of World War II, during the war, everyone was at risk, and the royals were not at peace, but Margaret did not assume any royal obligations, she lived in Windsor Castle, far from the war, carefree love, and talent in singing, she was cheerful and lively, no matter where she went, compared to her introverted and strict sister, Margaret was always the focus of the party pistachio.
On August 21, 1951, at the Royal Private Villa in Norfolk, England, Sandley Hanfu held a 21st birthday party for Princess Margaret. The beautiful princess appeared in a cream embroidered dress by French designer Dior. However, the royal family at that time was more rigorous than today's royal family, and the modest sister Isabe mostly chose the British local brand to attend public occasions, and Margaret ignored public opinion and completely based on his own preferences, so he became Wang Xu's fashion pioneer.
However, in the eyes of outsiders, Elizabeth has been doing her best to fulfill her royal duties, and Margaret is a rebellious princess who is beautiful but spoiled by her parents. But this was his father's last birthday with him. Five months later, George VI, 56, died of lung cancer. Her sister Elizabeth succeeded her as Queen Elizabeth II.
At this point, Margaret not only changed from a core member of the royal family to a marginal figure, but also lost her father who loved her most since childhood, and later, Margaret sadly wrote: He is a perfect person, the most important core of our happy family. From then on, the young Margaret had to rely on the anrm medicine to fall asleep.
Fortunately, at the lowest point of her life, when she was most sad, she was accompanied by peter Townsend, the man she loved most in her life. Peter Townsend was a colonel in the Royal Air Force, not only handsome and tall, but also made outstanding contributions to the royal family.
In 1944, a year before the end of World War II, Townsend was appointed military attaché to King George VI's attendant. As a result, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth liked him so much that what was supposed to be a three-month phased task became his life's work.
Beauty loves heroes, this is a beautiful thing, but they are like a thousand mountains, Townsend is not only 16 years older than Princess Margaret, and married and has two children, until 1952, Townsend officially divorced, the following April, he proposed to Princess Margaret.
Under the Royal Marriage Act of 1772, royals younger than 25 years of age had to obtain the consent of the British monarch to marry. So Margaret, 23, begged her sister, who had become queen at the time, to allow her to marry Townsend.
However, the British Royal Family does not allow princesses to marry divorced people whose former spouses are still alive. However, Queen Elizabeth, who loves her sister, did not directly reject her sister's proposal, but hoped that Margaret could wait until six months later for her coronation ceremony and overseas visit to end online discussions.
However, Margaret did not expect that on June 2, 1953, at the coronation of her sister Queen Elizabeth, Margaret was captured by the media to take intimate photos of him taking dust on his clothes for Townsend, and the love between the two was exposed.
Prior to this, Edward VIII had almost destroyed the royal family in order to marry the divorced Lady Simpson. Even though Prime Minister Winston Churchill approved of the beautiful young royal girl marrying a heroic pilot, his cabinet was adamantly opposed, and the Archbishop of Canterbury of the Church of England openly rejected the marriage between the two.
Compared with the extreme attitude of the royal family, most of the British people are on the side of love, thinking that as long as the two love each other, everything else can be unimportant, Queen Elizabeth and her mother, also hope that the family's baby Margaret can have a happy marriage, but in addition to Townsend's divorce, financial problems can not be ignored.
According to the royal regulations, a princess who marries at the age of 25 receives 6,000 pounds a year, a council allowance of 15,000 pounds, and the royal inheritance rights, at this time, Margaret is just a 23-year-old princess, if she insists on marrying Townsend, then she will not get any.
Although Elizabeth is the queen, she is also a sister, so she is reluctant to publicly veto her sister's marriage. So she told her sister Margaret that she hoped she would wait two years later, when she turned 25, before marrying, without the monarch's consent.
On July 15 of the same year, Churchill urgently transferred Townsend to the British Embassy in Belgium, hoping that the distance would dilute their relationship. Although Margaret had publicly dated others during Townsend's residency, according to reports, Townsend had secretly returned to England several times and secretly met the princess.
On August 21, 1955, Princess Margaret's 25th birthday, more than 300 journalists had already heard about it, all of whom were waiting for news of the princess's official marriage. But to their disappointment, none of this happened.
It was not until 31 October 1955 that Princess Margaret suddenly made a public statement: "On the basis of my responsibility to the Commonwealth and the indivisibility of religious marriage and education, I have decided not to marry Colonel Peter Townsend.
And her most beloved Townsend told her friends: Our feelings about each other have not changed, but the burden is too heavy, and we decided to let go of this relationship.
For their operation, the outside world is divided, people can not understand, Princess Margaret obviously has a deep love for Townsend, but suddenly took the initiative to give up the other party, and now this situation, there is only one reason to explain, that is, Margaret is not willing to give up royal privileges and allowances for love.
Three years later, in 1958, Townsend left Britain, and Margaret sealed their letters in the royal archives until 2030, the 100th birthday of the princess.
After breaking up with Townsend, Margaret seemed to have changed into a person, she was no longer the obedient little princess, but began to indulge herself, she began to smoke and drink, and even burned 60 cigarettes a day.
Two years later, in 1960, Margaret suddenly announced her engagement to photographer Anthony Armstrong Jones in October 1959. This time no one came forward against the princess's marriage.
Although Anthony was a commoner, he was highly skilled and talented, so he wandered around London high society, and the two met at a dinner party in 1958, Anthony fell in love with Margaret for the first time, and then actively pursued the princess and took the most beautiful photo of her life for the princess.
Although Margaret admired the other party very much, she knew very well that she did not like him, but just when she was about to refuse, she heard a news that shocked her a lot, and the person she loved the most, Townsend, was going to marry a girl who was only 20 years old, which made Margaret very bitter, so she agreed to Anthony's marriage proposal the next day.
On May 6, 1960, when Princess Margaret was 30 years old, she finally got married, and her wedding, unprecedentedly grand, was the world's first royal wedding to be publicly broadcast on television, her husband Anthony was named Count of Snowden, and Margaret was transformed from Princess Highness to Countess Snowden.
Princess Margaret and Anthony have the same personality preferences, and they love art, dance, drama, and so on. Soon after the marriage, Princess Margaret gave birth to a son and a daughter, and the family of four looked extremely happy and dazzling, but this was not the case.
After marriage, Margaret is still keen to socialize, shuttle through various parties, become the focus of every party, is the source of her happiness, and her husband is the same, even after they were only a month after marriage, at that time, they were on their honeymoon, but his ex-girlfriend has already given birth to his children, so it is not too much to say that Margaret and Anthony began to live a married life in name only.
In 1976, reporters photographed Princess Margaery, then 46, in a swimsuit with lu Weilin, a 17-year-old horticultural designer, on the beach, the first time royals had been photographed wearing revealing clothing. Margaret and Anthony then announced their separation, officially ending the 18-year marriage two years later.
This is the second time that a senior member of the royal family has been divorced after Queen Victoria's granddaughter Princess Victoria divorced in 1901. Moreover, Margaret was also the first person to divorce the Windsor Dynasty in England. The divorced princess attended high-society banquets and parties almost every day until late at night, and her debauched life also made her one of the most unpopular members of the royal family.
Due to the long-term excessive consumption of tobacco and alcohol, the princess's health was getting worse and worse. In 1985, at the age of 55, she underwent surgery to partially remove her lung, just like her father, who had suffered lung cancer 30 years earlier. Although the princess quit smoking under the persuasion of her family, she still had a very paranoid love of alcohol.
In 1992, more than 30 years after the breakup, Princess Margaret, 62, and Townsend, 78, were reunited at an official British ceremony, where they had lunch together. Three years later, Townsend died at the age of 80.
In 1998, Princess Margaret suffered a minor stroke and her health began to plummet, after which she had to travel in a wheelchair and her eyesight became extremely poor.
In 2001, when Margaret was 70 years old, she was last seen in public for her mother's 101st birthday party, and in a wheelchair he looked older than her elderly mother. The British people could not believe that the once beautiful and proud princess had become so cruel.
On 9 February 2002, Princess Margaret died at the age of 72 at the age of 72 at Edward VII Hospital in London due to heart problems caused by a second stroke. Queen Elizabeth II, who should not show her personal emotions in public, could not help but cry in front of the remains of her beloved sister.
Princess Margaret is often criticized for her disregard for public opinion and maverick style, but she still tries her best to fulfill her past obligations, despite her poor health, she continues to visit the past, and invests a lot of effort in public welfare activities, including caring for women, preventing animal abuse and so on.
Even though her royal status brought her a lot of pressure, she still proudly said: I am so unique, I have a king father, and a queen sister, the only sister of the Queen of England.