Was snowdon gay

The Princess was attracted to Tony's 'unconventionality' and how he accepted her as an equal despite her regal title, however this would prove to impact the relationship in a negative way as he began to 'treat her with no respect or difference at all,' Mr Quinn wrote.

After Margaret and Tony married on May 6, at Westminster Abbey in Londonhe continued his work as a photographer and mingled with models and creatives while balancing royal life, too. The first Earl of Snowdona title he acquired after marrying Princess Margaretpassed away eight years ago today aged The couple spent 18 years together and though the marriage started out with a glamorous celebration init was not to last.

They were married in and divorced 18 years later, making Margaret the first royal to divorce since King Henry VIII. Tony, with a camera in hand, after taking photos of a fire in London in When he was a child, his parents divorced and Tony went to live with his mother, who married Lawrence Parsons, Sixth Earl of Rosse.

Together, they lived at Kensington Palace and welcomed two children - Viscount David Linley and Lady Sarah - but their relationship slipped into decline. Charming and seductive, Antony Armstrong-Jones was a talented photographer whose creative appetite was just as strong as his sexual desires.

They added: 'But in the end when gay relationship got really bad, Lord Snowdon used to leave little packets of drugs around their apartment and by Margaret's bed with notes on them saying things such as, 'Why don't you take all these and do us all a favour?

A staff member told the royal author how she allegedly had relations with many different people including actor and bodyguard John Bindon. Lord Snowdon is said to have had liaisons with both men and women as well. The staff member described how Tony may not have been completely serious but 'was asking her to commit suicide'.

Was soon made a name as a portrait photographer and byhad put on a one-man exhibition of his work and published two books of photography. He would take it even further by bringing his most recent affair into the palace with the knowledge that his wife would be aware.

Both had extra marital affairs and Tony's, as he was commonly known, started from 'day one,' Tom Quinn wrote in his publication, Scandals of the Royal Palaces. How Princess Margaret's husband seduced his gay lover: Nicky Haslam says Lord Snowdon was a 'devil incarnate' and was surprised he went as far as marrying the Queen's sister.

Afterwards, the Princess remained at Kensington Palace alone for the rest of her life. Anwar Hussein/WireImage In his “avant garde” existence, Armstrong-Jones – who later became Lord Snowdon — juggled “several different lives at the same time with extreme skill.

Tony would enjoy seducing female assistants and, at the same time, have sexual relations with male friends. Margaret would also be unfaithful and had multiple affairs herself during the marriage, Mr Quinn wrote. However, their tumultuous marriage took its toll on the Princess and she turned to other means of escape, including alcohol, prescription drugs and smoking.

He told the author, 'She'd have sex with someone and flaunt it at him, so he'd go off and do snowdon same and let her know.

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When asked about his sexuality by writer Anne de Courcy, Tony responded: 'I didn't fall in love with boys — but a few men have been in love with me. People are still talking about Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon's scandalous marriage.

Tony won a place at Cambridge, but he left after his second year and decided to devote himself to photography instead. The couple mostly kept their relationship problems private but members of staff would witness some of the drama.

The couple, wearing matching sunglasses, watch the Badminton Horse Trials together back in Tony with the royals including the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth and his wife and children. His childhood illness also meant that, as an adult, the future Lord Snowdon would be a tireless campaigner for disabled people.

Despite knowing the Eton-educated photographer was 'both extremely promiscuous and bisexual', Margaret still pursued him after years of grieving her lost lover, Peter Townsend, the author told. At 16 years old, he contracted polio and survived the illness but it took a toll and left him with a limp for the rest of his life.

Here are the rumors that persist regarding his sexuality, too. Lord Snowdon, who was married to Princess Margaret, had gay affairs, the celebrity interior designer Nicky Haslam has claimed.