Princess Margaret (R) waves to her newly married daughter Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones and husband Daniel Chatto as they leave St Stephen Walbrook church in London July 14, 1994. Princess Margeret is flanked by her former husband Lady Sarah's father Lord Snowdon (C), their son Viscount Linley, and Linley's wife Serena.
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LONDON: British photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, the former husband of Queen Elizabeth II's late sister Princess Margaret, has died at the age of 86.
Armstrong-Jones, better known by his aristocratic title Lord Snowdon, led a hedonistic lifestyle of Caribbean holidays and celebrity parties with Margaret that epitomised the "Swinging Sixties".
They married in Westminster Abbey in 1960 after Margaret was persuaded to break off her relationship with RAF pilot Peter Townsend, who was divorced.
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Their union was very troublesome from the start, leading to a divorced in 1978 after Margaret embarked on a relationship with Roddy Llewellyn, a landscape gardener and playboy 18 years her junior.
Margaret died in 2002 after a lifetime of heavy smoking and drinking. Her mother the Queen Mother passed away a few weeks later at the age of 101.
Snowdon became famous for his celebrity portraits, including of Barbara Cartland, Laurence Olivier and J.R.R. Tolkien.
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