) Then there were Slim Aaron's candid snaps of Margaret at leisure, everywhere from Mustique to Costa Smeralda.īelow, we share 23 iconic photographs of Princess Margaret, from her World-War II era childhood, to her London wedding at which she wore the Poltimore Tiara, to her adult years hanging with Mick Jagger. How else would you explain her intimate 29th birthday portrait, shot by Anthony Armstrong Jones before he became Lord Snowdon, where she gazes coyly into the camera? (According to Anne de Courcey's Snowdon, the shoot served as an excuse for the two to further their flirtations. Whereas most other royals served as a mere photographic subject, Margaret also doubled as a muse. She pouted and posed for the artists of the moment, including Cecil Beaton, Slim Aarons, and her own photographer husband, Lord Snowdon. (In 1978, all hell broke loose when the British tabloids published paparazzi pictures of Margaret frolicking in Mustique with gardener Roddy Llewellyn, who was 18 years her junior.)īut all this attention was also due in part to her magnetism. And sure, part of it was due to press coverage that comes with being in the spotlight, exacerbated by Margaret's rocky romances. Sure, part of it was due to her role as a working royal, a job that requires public appearances at everything from museum openings to galas and state visits to Commonwealth countries.

In fact, on Getty Images-one of the world's most extensive online image collections-there's over 8,000 to sift through, a remarkable feat considering that she was born well before the site, the internet, and digitalization technology existed. He lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk with his wife Frances Welch they have two children.During her lifetime, Princess Margaret was one of the most photographed women in the world. Over the years, he has written for a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including Vanity Fair, the Sunday Times, the New Statesman, the Spectator, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books. He has been writing the parodic celebrity diary for Private Eye magazine for over thirty years, and is currently a columnist for the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.

His previous book, One on One, was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson prize for Non-Fiction. Originally published in 2017 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, Great Britain, as Maam Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret.

Biography: Craig Brown's last book, Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret won both the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature.

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