British Royals: Why no one knew this member of the royal family

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This is Princess Margret’s only granddaughter

The late Queen Elizabeth’s great-niece, Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones, is only now stepping into the limelight — for a special reason.

In a pompous couture dress by the Italian luxury label Giambattista Valli throws Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones, 20, gives the camera a sternly elevated look. Queen Elizabeth’s great-niece, † 96, made her debut on the cover of the May issue of British “Tatler” magazine at the end of March 2023, and yet very few people know her – until now. GALA takes a closer look at the young woman who is directly related to the British royal family.

Royals that nobody knows: This is Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones – great-niece of Queen Elizabeth (†)

She regularly appears on the balcony with the royal family, dazzled as the flower girl at the wedding of Prince William, 40, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, 41, on April 29, 2011, and appeared at the Queen’s funeral: Lady Margarita Armstrong- Jones, granddaughter of Princess Margaret, † 71, sister of Queen Elizabeth, is probably the most prominent member of the royal family that nobody has known before.

Touching reason for cover debut

Lady Margarita celebrates her 21st birthday on May 14th. She was born in 2002 at Portland Hospital in London. On this special occasion, she follows in the footsteps of her famous grandmother, who also appeared on the cover of Tatler magazine on her 21st birthday in 1951 – but in a Dior dress. A good 21 years after Margaret’s death on February 9, 2002 Her only granddaughter now steps into the limelight.

Lady Margarita is number 25 in line to the throne

Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones, who will soon be 21, is the daughter of the Queen’s nephew David Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, 61, and his ex-wife Serena Alleyne Stanhope, 53, daughter of the Earl of Harrington. The couple married in 1993. In February 2020, a spokesman told the BBC that they wanted to divorce. Lady Margarita is currently number 25 in line to the British throne – behind her brother Charles Armstrong Jones, 23.

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Margarita inherited her father’s entrepreneurial genes

Margarita inherited her father’s entrepreneurial genes. David Armstrong-Jones started his own custom furniture company. However, the 21-year-old did not end up in the furniture business, she prefers to concentrate on jewelry and has founded her own label Matita.

Princess Margaret’s granddaughter also has a fondness for photography, as does her grandfather, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, †86, who was a famous photographer. On her Instagram account, she regularly shares beautiful photos, mainly from urban areas.

Studied at a renowned Parisian school

According to “Tatler” magazine, she has been studying at the renowned Haute École de Joaillerie since September 2022, which she says is the oldest jewelery school in the world. In east Paris, near the Bastille, Margarita shares an apartment with her best friends: a young woman she knows from her time at Tudor Hall, a private girls’ boarding school in Oxfordshire, and a student at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University .

Armstrong-Jones wants to master the jeweller’s craft perfectly, takes her grandfather as a role model here too and reveals in an interview with “Tatler” that Antony Armstrong-Jones was responsible for the floral design of Princess Margaret’s engagement ring in 1960. The couple was from Married 1960 to 1978.

It is not known whether Lady Magarita is taken. But who knows: maybe one day she will make it big as a jewelery designer and become one of the most famous members of the British royal family.

Source used: tatler.com, instagram.com, bbc.com, royal.uk, hauteecoledejoaillerie.com

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