News about Lord Snowdon

The Princess of Wales (left) has taken a heartwarming photo of Prince Louis (right) to mark his birthday as she puts the Photoshop row behind her. The royal, 42, who is currently undergoing cancer treatment, is a keen photographer and traditionally releases a portrait of her children on their birthdays every year. Louis, who beams at the camera, is seen lying on his front on a camel blanket in the grounds of the Windsor estate. In March, royal fans went into meltdown after Associated Press issued a 'kill notice' on a photo of the Princess of Wales and her three children that had been released for Mother's Day (inset). The following day, the Princess of Wales admitted that she edited the Mother's Day photo herself and apologised for 'any confusion' it had caused.

The late Princess of Wales 's timeless looks, including a Catherine Walker skirt suit and a hat designed by Philip Somerville, are a part of the sale taking place this summer. It follows in the footsteps of the historic 1997 Christie's charity auction, and will see cocktail and evening dresses go under the hammer - as well as skirts, shoes and other accessories.

The Princess Royal has dominated the league table for Royal positions for many years, so it's no surprise that she's started this year at a blazing pace. The number matches the number. Nothing seems to ruffle her, from being President of the Save the Children Fund to being Admiral of the Sea Cadet Corps. Anne, joined by her husband Sir Timothy Laurence, visited Sri Lanka where she met the President among her many duties at the start of the year.

Now that spring is here, thoughts will inevitably return to the challenge of finding the right T-shirt. This could be dismissed as ridiculous, but there are only three of them I find acceptable. The bulk of those are trial foes or those whose days of splendor are long past.

Prince Harry was mistreated as a young man when he was first exposed to cannabis use. However, his offence is minor when compared to the drug use of some older Kensington Palace residents. Author Tom Quinn cites a former employee's testimony that illegal drugs were deliberately left lying around in his book Scandals of the Royal Palaces. The servants were told not to say nothing.

When the first dress that Jacques Azagury designed for Princess Diana fell short of records at auction late last year as the most expensive of her gowns to sell at auction, the couturier was travelling around India. He had withdrawn from fashion and closed his eponymous shop in Knightsbridge, south-west London, when the auction took place at Julien's Auctions in Los Angeles.

It's not all doom and gloom in the Royal Family at the moment. The Earl of Snowdon, King Charles' cousin, still has time for love. In Mayfair, David, the late Princess Margaret's 62-year-old son, was seen kissing his mother, Isabelle de La Bruyere. On the cheek outside George private members' club before he took off on his bicycle into the night.

He is best known as the dashing society photographer who became Princess Margaret's husband. Lord Snowdon, who was born on this day in 1930, climbed to the very highest levels of the company. Antony Armstrong-Jones was a mysterious figure in his own right, one of the city's most glamorous men long before the princess was married in 1960.

Princess Margaret may have departed from the dutiful requirements set by Queen Elizabeth, but she was still very popular. Despite their differences, the sisters stayed close throughout their lives, speaking every day until Margaret's death on February 9, 2001 at the age of 71.

The pictures, when they finally emerged, stunned the world, if not the families who were in on the dark. Princess Margaret, who is apparently happiest, is nestled up close to a penniless toy-boy 18 years her junior. She bought him within minutes of their first meeting, and he's wearing two Union Jack smugglers. She is sincerely in love in the 13th year of her marriage.

Papers have shown how the Royal Family aided in the nation's recovery during the dark days of war. After a mishap on Sunday when bicycles returned from church to help save fuel during a wartime petrol shortage, it reduced Queen Mary and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to sitting in a ditch. The pair waited patiently as a tumultuous King George tried to refit his bicycle chain that was still falling off. The incident's details were recalled by the chauffeur of a Czechoslovak statesman and a friend of the royals who gave them a lift. The tale was told in recently declassified papers from the Czech Cold War Security Service archives, according to the Mail.

Lord Snowdon, Princess Margaret's former husband, died on this day at the age of 86. Antony Armstrong-Jones captured some of the twentieth century's most prominent portraits, from Princess Diana to Elizabeth Taylor, in a career that spanned more than six decades. However, he was best known for marrying the Queen's younger sister in 1960, a marriage that ended in divorce 18 years later. Snowdon's tangled affairs of the heart will soon be the subject of burgeoning rumors.

He landed on the golden sands of St Lucia in 1987, the self-styled 'King of the Caribbean'. Lord Glenconner made his entrance while riding his beloved pet elephant, Bupa, in a pristine white linen suit and trademark straw hat. The 60-year-old wanted something bigger and better after building a hedonistic haven for royalty and rock stars on his private island of Mustique. The eccentric Scottish aristocrat, a confidante of Princess Margaret, wished to live out the remainder of his days in St Lucian splendor.

The black, ballerina-length velvet evening dress went for eleven times more at Julien's Auctions in Hollywood, having been predicted to sell for $100,000. Fans of the late Princess's death fought it out to new heights on Sunday, with the winner receiving $1.148 million (£904,262). The gown, which included shoulder pads, a blue organza skirt, a large blue bow, and a sash, is now the new record holder for Diana's most expensive clothing. At an auction in January, the previous record holder, a 1991 velvet gown by Victor Edelstein, sold for $604,800 (£476,437).

Diana, Princess of Wales, 1985's gown set a new fashion record, but it went under the hammer in Hollywood for 11 times its estimated value. (right) At Julien's Auctions, the black, ballerina-length evening gown sold for a grand total of 1,148,080 US dollars (£904,262). Diana wore the frock in Italy in 1985, when she and her then-husband Charles, Prince of Wales, visited Vancouver, Canada, and then again to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in 1986. (left)

RICHARD KAY: What are you doing here?' By then Prince Charles, these were the first words spoken to writer Anthony Holden (pictured right). This was also to be the last, more than 20 years ago, and they were delivered in a distinctly chilly tone. Holden later described their first meeting as accompanied by a handshake - 'disappointingly limp.' Nothing more than a princely glower lit their final segment. I can recall that this was far from friendly as a witness to the later encounter in a remote corner of the South African bush in 1997. And yet here were two guys who may have forged a great deal. Both products of Oxbridge and a costly private education were about the same age. If not a shared view, they certainly had some common interest, e.g. a love of Shakespeare and an appreciation of opera and classical music. And all of them had a broken marriage by the time of their marriage and was the father of sons.

Historians were shocked to learn that sorting of the late Queen's personal papers had been given to a mere footman rather than a senior courtier or a Royal family representative. The royals have a long tradition of setting fire to their past, leaving behind only what they feel would portray their character in a positive light.

Princess Margaret, her husband Lord Snowdon, and their two children were planning to spend Easter at Birr Castle in County Offaly, Ireland, with Lord Snowdon's stepfather. However, newly classified papers show that the British embassy rejected the plan due to the fact that a body of extremists who would feel obliged to cause chaos even though it is simply to mention their existence.' If the royals' holiday had moved forward, it would have coincided with the 52nd anniversary of the rebellion in Dublin, which was followed by the British monarchy.

Princess Margaret appears to have wanted a different childhood for her son and daughter, despite being caught up in the glare of publicity - and often shy to assert her royal position. My children aren't royal, they just happen to have the Queen as an aunt,' she once said. And it seems her grandchildren are embracing the same low-key approach to life as she does. Even though Charles Armstrong-Jones is the Queen's great-nephew and a vital part of the extended Royal Family, few members of the general public, for example, would know him. Charles, who has just turned 24, wears the title Viscount Linsley, but lives in a private life as a musician, perhaps reflecting something of his grandmother, Princess Margaret, his cabinet-maker father, and artist aunt, Lady Sarah Chatto.

The late Ann Leslie turns a pessimistic glance at the Royal Family from her book in her second extra from her memoir, detailing how she once drove a wedge between Princess Margaret and her then-husband Lord Snowdon. I first encountered Princess Margaret's snobbish, spoilt, and (to me) spiteful sister when I was writing about the Bahamas for the magazine in 1967.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Following the Royal Family's tradition, the Goring Hotel has been cherished by successive generations of the royal family for so long that it has been described as almost an annexe of Buckingham Palace, a special status that was not widely understood a decade ago when Queen Elizabeth granted it a royal warrant a decade ago. But is that intimate bond about to break? I ask because of what, by the Goring's stately standards, is groundbreaking information regarding the dining room. It's there that the Queen Mother indulging in Eggs Drumkilbo, one of the hotel's signature dishes that is crammed with as much lobster as egg, and where, three years after she died at the age of 102 in 2002, her beloved grandson, David Linley, now Lord Snowdon, returned to work. He had been redecorating the room with handcrafted walnut columns and coating walls in soothing tones of toffee and biscuit, as well as adding three Swarovski crystal chandeliers, and triumphantly pulled it off. In fact, the Goring's website referred to the redesigned dining room as a "luxurious setting" that refused to be either painfully old school or a modern one. However, Linley's efforts haven't ceased to be magical, as shown by me, at least on Jeremy Goring, the fourth generation at the helm of the family-owned hotel.

Princess Margaret, Queen Margaret's sister, enjoyed all the riches and splendor of a high-profile royal. However, she took a different path when it came to her family. My children aren't royal, but they do have the Queen as an aunt,' she said once.' The Earl of Snowdon and Lady Sarah Chatto, according to Margaret's grandchildren, live relatively normal lives away from royal responsibility. The Mail's new Royals section features a Bohemian ceramicist, a Royal Marines heartthrob, and glamorous jewelry designer Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones.

When the queen's vivacious younger sister split with her husband of 20 years on March 14, 1976, it was a blow not only to her family but to convention - and the reverence in which monarchy was held. It would lead to a string of royal divorces in the years to come. In Anne de Courcy's acclaimed Snowdon - The Biography, the dramatic tale of Princess Margaret's romance with her photographer husband was chronicled. In this enthralling excerpt from 2017, Margaret's neediness and Tony Snowdon's philandering transformed the marriage from a love match to a battlefield. The pressures of marriage to a Royal were starting to chafe by the summer of 1965, five years since they were married. He was never going to spend his time as a permanent number two, and his prime occupation was to be the most coveted royal consort. Primarily, this was due to his drive to work, but it also involved a streak of conceriness in his nature that manifested itself in many floutings of a new style or order. Margaret, despite dipping her toes in Tony's world, would keep playing the royal role and behaving in the way she had always behaved. 'She was very much a schizophrenic in this sense,' her cousin, Lord Lichfield, said. 'Don't forget who I am'' at a time when people got to mates.' Judy Montagu and her husband, who lived in an elegant apartment in Rome's historic Jewish quarter, all climbed out of a window and onto the roof. 'It's the only place I can get away from her," he said of his wife. Pictured: Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon at Badminton Horse Trials, 1970 (left); Margaret and Tony Snowdon at Gatwick Airport the following year (right); Snowdon and Margaret argue in a scene from The Crown (inset)

Among the many performances and unexpected moments in Windsor Castle's Coronation Concert on Sunday were none more striking than the sight of Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh dancing alongside Lionel Ritchie. And the real surprise? She could really move, receiving adoration from viewers and royal followers who took to Twitter in astonishment. I've never wanted to party with a Princess more,' wrote one.' We've all seen the Windsors dance before, of course, because it's not unprecedented for members of the Royal Family to be led to the dance floor for a regal boogie. However, although late Queen Elizabeth was known as a good dancer, some of the younger generation have shone more brilliantly than others. Here are some of the other show-stopping moments in which the royals decided to cut some shapes. For better and worse, there is both good and bad news.