It was the best-kept royal secret of the 20th century. When Buckingham Palace announced in February 1960 that the Queen’s younger sister, Princess Margaret, was engaged to marry Antony Armstrong-Jones, it came as a huge shock to many people, including several women who thought they were exclusively seeing the handsome Welshman. (One of them gave birth to his baby just a few weeks after Tony, as he was known, married Margaret in May).
Tony, who later became the Earl of Snowdon, was known for his discretion. From the start of his clandestine romance with Margaret, through to their divorce 18 years later, and in all the years up to his death at 86 last week, he was very tight-lipped about his in-laws. That may have had something to do with…
