Talk:Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

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[edit] Countess of Snowdon

After reading articles doubting the right of Diana, Princess of Wales and Sarah, Duchess of York to hold their respective titles after their divorce, I believe it would be fitting here to write a small paragraph outlining that Princess Margaret seized to be legally the Countess of Snowdon as that is a title reserved for the wife of the Earl of Snowdon. Does anyone agree with this?

It's not a question of legality but practice. The wife of an Earl is not, for that reason alone, a peeress in her own right. It's just a courtesy title. When a peer and his wife divorce, it's common practice for her to retain his surname and her courtesy title, unless she remarries another peer and thereby gains a different courtesy title. Princess Margaret never remarried, so she remained the Countess of Snowdon until her death. -- JackofOz 04:01, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon or the HRH The Duchess of York

At the time of her birth, her mother was HRH The Duchess of York and not Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Therefore, I have changed the reference to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon being her mother a birth.

[edit] Kidnap?

Where shall we place details of the kidnap attempt in 1974? ant_ie 21:24, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

I'm amazed there is no photo...when she played such a large role in British Royal life the entire time she was alive 88.110.32.255 20:48, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

If you know of one in the public domain, then post it.Mowens35 21:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
There needs to be a modern photo of her. --24.249.108.133 17:59, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Her face in the current photo is rather small. Perhaps it could be cropped so we see her more clearly, and less of the other people.86.145.1.32 11:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Father?

In the "Early Life" section it states that her father was Prince Albert, shouldn't it be King George 6? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SDSpivey (talk • contribs) 01:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC).

Nope, because, at the time of her birth, he was HRH The Prince Albert, Duke of York – DBD 10:29, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Religion?

Im sure i heard somewhere that she became a Roman Catholic in her later years?

I'm not sure where you heard that, but I don't think it's true - it would've been quite big news, because she'd've been struck from the line of succession and Council of State... † DBD 12:00, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Why was she crematedd? Iman S1995 14:58, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Because she was deadd.
It is believed she requested to be cremated so that her ashes could be placed in the tomb of her father in St George's Chapel, Windsor in which a few months later her mothers' coffin was placed in as well Penrithguy 19:05, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

The more logical reason is that "the tomb of her father" reputedly only has space for another four people to be interred: Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and the future monarch and his second wife? If the late Princess Margaret had not been cremated, logically she would have had to be buried in the Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore, near Windsor. Her choice of cremation is therefore understandable as it enabled her mortal remains to go into St.George's Chapel, with her parents, to be followed by her sister, brother-in-law and her nephew and his second wife.

anon 91.108.16.49 (talk)

[edit] Innuendo

"Unproven allegations also claim she had been romantically involved with musician Mick Jagger, actor Peter Sellers, and the Australian cricketer, Keith Miller [1] although the true extent of her relationships with these men has never been clear." -- I'm striking all after "Keith Miller" as unencyclopedic innuendo. If we have any citable facts, let's say so and cite them. If not, let's avoid the tabloidism. Please discuss here as necessary. -- 201.51.250.178 23:49, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Illegitimate son?

Given the BBC is reporting Robert Brown's attempts to find evidence he may be Princess Margaret's illegitimate son, I'd have thought there would be some mention of it here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6272868.stm (Why can't he just look at the appointments of the royal court from the broadsheets of the day to see if she disappeared from public life during the supposed pregnancy?) -- Ralph Corderoy 11:17, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Irish Pigs

Surely it should be mentioned the fact that she called all Irish people "Pigs"

From BBC Website:

"In 1979, the year Lord Mountbatten was assassinated by the IRA, she caused a stir when the Mayor of Chicago alleged that she had described the Irish as "pigs"."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/278463.stm

Very notable

Niall123 (talk) 14:56, 3 February 2008 (UTC)