![]() ![]() "I'm enormously impressed when she walks into a room. ![]() In a recently unearthed Princess Margaret interview from the 1960s, the late royal can be heard showering her older sister with praise. Only one foreign royal (Queen Ingrid of Denmark) attended the ceremony, amidst widespread disapproval of Margaret's choice of husband. The wedding of Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones (later Earl of Snowdon) was the first royal wedding to be broadcast on television. Princess Margaret's wedding was the first royal wedding to be broadcast on television Townsend's wife, Marie-Luce Jamagne, bore an uncanny resemblance to the princess. Margaret went on to marry photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones in 1960, at the age of 29, reportedly accepting his proposal just one day after learning that Townsend intended to marry a 19-year-old Belgian woman, allegedly breaking a pact the pair had made that neither would marry anyone else. In fact, as was revealed decades later, she could have kept her title and money, but was deliberately misinformed by Churchill's government. ![]() ![]() Townsend revealed that Princess Margaret eventually refused his marriage proposal because he "simply hadn't the weight to counterbalance all she would have lost - her position, her prestige, her privy purse". ![]()
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