Princess Margaret

Princess Margaret was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II. After her father's accession in 1936, she briefly stood second in line to the British throne before being displaced as her sister's children and grandchildren were born. She spent much of her childhood at Windsor Castle with her family and elder sister, remaining in Britain during the Second World War and becoming part of the monarchy’s symbol of endurance. In the postwar era she was celebrated for her glamour, social life, and patronage of the arts, emerging as a style-setting figure in British high society. In the 1950s her relationship with Group Captain Peter Townsend ended under pressure from government and church, turning her private romantic dilemma into a public drama about personal feeling versus royal duty. She later married photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones and, throughout the 1960s and 1970s, came to embody the image of a modern, sometimes controversial royal celebrity.