Anthony Armstrong-Jones was born to a Welsh father & English-Jewish mother. Creative & inventive, he attended Eton & then Cambridge. The engagement of this motorbike-riding freelance photographer in 1960 to Princess Margaret was a bombshell. Friends privately predicted disaster. & so it proved. But meanwhile in the 1960s, mixing with actors, artists & pop stars, they were the epitome of stylish & unstuffy arts-loving Royals
- & one of the iconic glamorous couples of that era. Tony continued to work & both began to have affairs. They divorced in 1978. Snowdon married again but this marriage collapsed after the birth of a secret love-child & the suicide of his mistress of twenty years. His low boredom threshold & waspish cruelty are balanced by his fabled charm & genuine concern for the disabled & underpriviledged. One of the great British photographers, at 76 he now suffers from a recurrence of childhood polio. But by any standards he has had an extraordinary life.