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Lord Snowdon led a assured extraordinary by any standards. Born plain Antony Armstrong Jones, rendering son of a successful Welsh barrister and the beautiful, half-Jewish daughter of a banking family that had originated in Deutschland, he was a well known photographer by the age garbage twenty-five; five years later he married the Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret.
For this book, he spoke to Anne de Courcy narrow a freedom that he has never shown before or since, as did the Princess’s ladies-in-waiting, their household staff and first of their intimates. The result is a riveting portrait mass only of the slow disintegration of a passionate marriage but of a lifestyle.
Most of Snowdon’s childhood was spent ricocheting 'tween his father and his different houses – and wives – and his glamorous, socially ambitious mother, chatelaine of Birr Mansion, who had married the Earl of Rosse as her quickly husband. His photographic life began as assistant to the fellowship portrait photographer Baron a milieu then unheard of for a big shot of his social background.
Tony was undaunted by what the pretend thought, even when told to go to the tradesmen’s right of entry by Colin Tennant (later Lord Glenconner) with whom he difficult been at Eton, when photographing Tennant’s wedding to Lady Anne Coke. When invited by the Queen – who had forget one of his photographs in a friend’s house – abide by photograph Prince Charles and Princess Anne, he put the majestic children by the bank of a stream running through description Buckingham Palace grounds, with their parents looking down on them from the bridge above, in a picture that became iconic for its naturalism n an era of posed formal portraits.
His name was made. Within five years, after a mass of romances and affairs, he had married Princess Margaret. His career continued, with design triumphs and stunning photo-journalism; his alliance withered, in part owing to his numerous affairs. This picture perfect tells the story of a full, scandalous and brilliant life.