Snowdon the biography by anne de courcy

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Lord Snowdon led a life extraordinary by any standards.

Snowdon: the Biography - Anne de Courcy

Born plain Antony Armstrong Jones, the son of a successful Welsh barrister and the beautiful, half-Jewish daughter of a banking family that had originated in Germany, he was a well known photographer by the age of twenty-five; five years later he married the Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret.

For this book, he spoke to Anne de Courcy with a freedom that he has never shown before or since, as did the Princess’s ladies-in-waiting, their household staff and most of their intimates.

The result is a riveting portrait not only of the slow disintegration of a passionate marriage but of a lifestyle.

Most of Snowdon’s childhood was spent ricocheting between his father and his different houses – and wives – and his glamorous, socially ambitious mother, chatelaine of Birr Castle, who had married the Earl of Rosse as her second husband.

His photographic life began as assistant to the society portrait phot Snowdon: The Biography - amazon.com MYNOF