The passing away of Lord Snowdon, the Late Princess Margaret's former husband at age 86

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Earlier this morning, the royal world was in shock when it was announce through his family spokesman that Lord Snowdon passed away. Lord Snowdon, former husband of Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II's deceased sister, died on Friday at the age of 86.

In her earlier years in the 50's, she was the known as the first "royal rebel" same as her husband. Lord Snowdon, died Friday at the age of 86, announced the photographic agency for which he worked. "Count Snowdon died peacefully at his home on January 13," Camera Press said in a statement. Born in March 1930, Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, son of a lawyer and a woman of the world, was also a great photographer.

He was known for his portraits of a young Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip during their visit to Canada in 1957, the engagements photos of prince Charles and the late Princess Diana. During the 1960s and 1970s, One of the greatest British photographers. Reporter and artistic director of the Sunday Times, Antony Armstrong-Jones will remain famous for his photographs of the great ones of the world, of which a hundred are still kept at the National Portrait Gallery.

News from Buckingham Palace informs us that Her Majesty was inform on the Count's passing away

In 1960, the fashionable and a little bohemian photographer married a very turbulent and rebel Princess Margaret, the British sovereign' only and little sister. A few years earlier, Princess Margaret had to give up her love for squire divorcee Peter Townsend, for Armstrong-Jones becoming the first untitled man to marry the daughter of a king in 450 years. A year later, he will still be given a title of count, to look good. From their union were born Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto. But the marriage quickly collapsed, and in public.

The couple was full of scandals especially their infidelities were largely spread out in the press. If his wife had the reputation of being a seducer and a penchant for the party, Lord Snowdon was known for his numerous mistresses, and even, it is said, lovers. A rumor he never really denied: "I never fell in love with boys - but men have been in love with me." In 2004, a new biography explained that he had a child of a mistress, shortly before his marriage with Margaret.

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