Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (21 August 1930.[1] – 9 February 2002[2] ) was the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II.

Margaret was born in Glamis Castle, Scotland.

In 1961, she married the photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones, who was made Earl of Snowdon. After they divorced she was known as Princess Margaret Countess of Snowdon; the Earl's new wife was simply the Countess of Snowdon.

Margaret died of a stroke in a London hospital.[3]

Ancestors [change]

 
 
 
 
 
Victoria of the United Kingdom
 
 
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
 
 
 
 
 
 
Albert the Prince Consort
 
 
George V of the United Kingdom
 
 
 
 
 
 
Christian IX of Denmark
 
 
Alexandra of Denmark
 
 
 
 
 
 
Louise of Hesse-Cassel
 
 
George VI of the United Kingdom
 
 
 
 
 
 
Duke Alexander of Württemberg
 
 
Francis, Duke of Teck
 
 
 
 
 
 
Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde
 
 
Mary of Teck
 
 
 
 
 
 
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
 
 
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
 
 
 
 
 
 
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel
 
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
 
 
 
 
 
Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis
 
 
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
 
 
 
 
 
 
Charlotte Lyon-Bowes, Lady Glamis(née Grimstead)
 
 
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
 
 
 
 
 
 
Oswald Smith
 
 
Frances Dora Smith
 
 
 
 
 
 
Henrietta Mildred Hodgson
 
 
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord William Charles Augustus Cavendish-Bentinck
 
 
Charles William Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck
 
 
 
 
 
 
Anne Wellesley
 
 
Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck
 
 
 
 
 
 
Edwyn Burnaby
 
 
Caroline Louisa Burnaby
 
 
 
 
 
 
Anne Caroline Salisbury
 

References [change]

  1. Heald, p.1; Warwick, pp.27–28
  2. Warwick, p.304
  3. Warwick, p.304