Princess Margaret

2022 - 9 - 20

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Why was Princess Margaret cremated? Breaking with royal tradition (Evening Standard)

In 2002, rather than a grand procession carrying her coffin to its final resting place, Princess Margaret was instead cremated at Slough Crematorium.

[Prince Philip](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/prince-philip-coffin-royal-vault-windsor-historic-b930324.html), who passed away last year, remained interred in Windsor, but he will be buried with The Queen at the King George VI memorial chapel, located inside St George’s Chapel. [ELIZABETH](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/new-portrait-queen-funeral-platinum-jubilee-b1026484.html) II 1926-2022. [the Queen](https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/the-queen) will reunite with her parents and her sister when she is lowered into the Royal Vault. [Princess Margaret](https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/princess-margaret) was instead cremated at Slough Crematorium. [Princess Margaret](/topic/princess-margaret). [Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-99842/Margaret-chose-cremation-near-father.html) reported that her decision to be cremated was driven by her wish to be laid with her father.

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Why was Princess Margaret cremated? How Queen's sister broke ... (Metro)

Queen Elizabeth II will be reunited with her sister when she is buried in King George VI Memorial Chapel today.

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Why was Princess Margaret cremated instead of being buried? (Mirror.co.uk)

Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest at St George's Chapel today, next to her younger sister's ashes. Here's why Princess Margaret was cremated instead ...

The Princess had intended to be buried at Frogmore at Windsor Home Park. which is a three-and-a-half-mile journey from the chapel. After a private funeral service at St George’s Chapel at Windsor, Princess Margaret's coffin was transported to the Slough crematorium. She also wished to be laid to rest with her father, who is interned in the King George VI Memorial Chapel at St George’s Chapel. It was Princess Margaret's own decision to be cremated, becoming the first royal in 60 years to be cremated in over 60 years. Prince Philip who passed away last April and currently rests in the Royal Vault, will also be moved to St George's Chapel after the Queen's funeral

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When did Princess Margaret die and why was she cremated?... (The Irish Sun)

PRINCESS MARGARET was the late Queen's beloved sister and was the first-ever senior royal to be cremated.The late Queen was extremely close to her you.

The marriage of a "commoner" and a royal was also thought to represent the breaking down of British class barriers at the time. Princess Margaret and her husband her Following Princess Margaret's death Lady Sarah and David started a charity in her honour – the Princess Margaret Fund – which supports stroke research. PRINCESS MARGARET was the late Queen's beloved sister and was the first-ever senior royal to be cremated. At the tender age of six, Margaret was second in line to the British throne. When did Princess Margaret die and why was she cremated?

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Why was the Queen's sister Princess Margaret cremated? (Entertainment Daily)

Princess Margaret's ashes were laid next to the remains of her beloved father, King George VI, and her mother, in St George's Chapel. This evening, the Queen ...

Furthermore, he added: “Our tradition is we tend to have people in at least a week after they have died to give the families a chance to get everyone together. Roger Parkin, the registrar, said at the time: “As far as we are concerned, it will be a normal working day. We’ve only got five others on the books at the moment. The only senior royal to have been cremated previously was Princess Louise. There’s room I think for her to be with him now. This evening, the Queen and Prince Philip will join them.

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Ready for Absolutely Nothing by Susannah Constantine review ... (The Guardian)

From boarding school through the Sloane years to her turn as Anton Du Beke's worst-ever Strictly partner, the former TV style guru's memoir is sometimes ...

[What Not to Wear](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/oct/28/fashion.shopping) began on the BBC in 2001). A turn as Anton Du Beke’s [worst ever partner on ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtzI93xz35U) [Strictly Come Dancing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtzI93xz35U) would, indeed, one day be hers (in 2018), and it surely says something about her charmed life that, in the small hours, it’s Ann Widdecombe of whom she thinks enviously, the former politician having somehow made it to week 10 of that redoubtable, long-running talent show. Early Constantine, for those of us of a certain age and disposition, is where it’s at: dancing to Desmond Dekker with Princess Margaret; posing for Patrick Lichfield on Mustique; hanging out at Tramp and Annabel’s. But I don’t know, for all that it must have been lucrative, that it made her happy, even if it was only after it ended that her boozing began in earnest (she once appeared drunk on QVC). Woodall, now a makeup magnate, gets hardly a mention, and I suppose that Constantine’s late period – into which she has been accompanied by her husband, Sten Bertelsen (who looks like Morten Harket of A-ha) – is too domestic and thus too boring to make for good copy (though she does, at some point, become BFs with Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters). But perhaps such expertise is also connected to the fact that she was the daughter of a very rich but distinctly non-aristocratic man – he was in property and shipping – whose aspirations had led him to rent his country home near Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire from the estate of the Duke of Rutland. The bulk of her memoir is devoted to all this. For a while, her best friend was Theresa Manners, the 10th Duke of Rutland’s daughter and a future favourite of Tatler’s party pages. At 60, her focus is on her family, on her “exceptional” home in the West Sussex countryside, and on her writing. She first met him in the early 1980s, at the Queen Mother’s home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor, where he performed at the piano after dinner in a ringmaster’s tailcoat, balloon trousers, bejewelled spectacles and a cap accessorised with a sapphire brooch the size of a baked potato. Constantine has an intrepid side; little fazes her, not even the fact she’s apt to faint when going to the loo. Middle period Constantine is mostly all about her television career, when she and her friend Trinny Woodall made a living out of telling women what not to wear (in this capacity, she once explained to me that I had “saddlebags” and should immediately burn the coat I was wearing).

CIBC Mellon to provide asset servicing for the Princess Margaret ... (GlobalCustodian.com)

The services will include custody, institutional accounting, unitisation services, foreign exchange processing and settlement services, and investment ...

“Canadian asset owners and not-for-profit organisations are under increasing pressure to deliver stronger outcomes for stakeholders as they work to deliver on their core mission, achieve their goals, increase transparency and demonstrate effectiveness. From the start, the CIBC Mellon team demonstrated a commitment to understanding our unique operating requirements.” “One of our key focus areas is to deliver operational efficiency by optimising the use of our resources in our fundraising efforts,” said John Anzin, vice president, finance, Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation.

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Why the Queen's sister Princess Margaret broke royal tradition to be ... (cosmopolitan.com)

Billions of people across the globe tuned in yesterday to watch the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away on 8 September at the age of 96.

The other option was for Margaret to be buried in Frogmore in Windsor Great Park, where Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are buried – but a friend said she refused this. She just said she was going to be cremated," Glenconner went on. [funeral of Queen Elizabeth II](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a41238434/queen-philip-buried-together/), who passed away on 8 September at the age of 96. But, in a break from royal tradition the Queen's sister was cremated upon her death rather than buried. According to Until Margaret's passing, no senior working royal in living memory had been cremated, they were either buried or interred.

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Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend's Relationship: A Look Back (PEOPLE.com)

Princess Margaret met Peter Townsend when she was just a teenager. The two never wed and parted ways in October 1955. Here is a complete timeline of their ...

During the festivities, a [reporter](https://people.com/royals/on-this-day-in-royal-history-princess-margaret-cancelled-her-wedding-to-peter-townsend/) saw Princess Margaret flick something off of Townsend's jacket, prompting speculation about their relationship. Townsend had been ill for quite some time when he died in Paris at the age of 80. But in August 1955, Margaret penned a letter to Eden and said that she would finally see Townsend in October after two years apart. Although Princess Margaret and Armstrong-Jones had separated two years prior, they divorced in 1978. However, the British government prepared plans in the event that Margaret would decide to marry Townsend after turning 25. Princess Margaret married Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey on May 6, 1960. And since Townsend was a divorced man (and the Church of England had strict rules about remarriage after divorce at the time), the Queen did not grant Margaret's request. Prime Minister Anthony Eden wrote, "Exclusion from the Succession would not entail any other change in Princess Margaret's position as a member of the Royal Family." Townsend and Margaret spent plenty of time together during the trip as his official job was to look after the princess. Paperwork relating to the visit revealed that Townsend had asked for his room at Hillsborough Castle to be moved next to Margaret's room. Although Townsend ended up divorcing his first wife and proposing to Margaret in 1953, their relationship ultimately didn't work out. At the time, Townsend was married with two sons.

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Princess Margaret's wild final years on the island of Mustique (EL PAÍS in English)

When aristocrat Colin Tennant, the 3rd Baron Glenconner, bought an exotic Caribbean island north of Venezuela for £45,000 in 1958, his wife Anne thought she ...

What she did not imagine was that her dream would unexpectedly be cut short in 1999: she accidentally burned her feet in the bathtub at her island house. The photographs of that night, in which Margaret could be seen having a great time, soon reached the British newspapers. In 1976, the paradisiacal island ceased to be a secret for most mortals for another more hedonistic reason. That year, on the occasion of Colin Tennant’s 50th birthday, the elite destination held the most notorious party to date. Although everyone knew that their marriage was not as idyllic as they made it look, those snapshots were the trigger for their divorce in 1978, the first by a member of British royalty since Henry VIII did the same in 1533. However, she did not count on her young conquest confessing in 1981 that he was seeing Tatiana Soskin, the wife of film producer Paul Soskin. After that, the princess began to visit the mansion twice a year, in the months of October or November and in February. Not only did she have a house built for her there, but while still married, the destination was also the scene of her relationship with the young Roddy Llewellyn Previously, the British press had already speculated on the possibility that Margaret had been unfaithful to Lord Snowdon with personalities as varied After saying “I do” to photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones (who was given the title of Lord Snowdon), the couple embarked on a six-week trip to the Caribbean on the yacht Britannia. During their days on the island, they had no choice but to shower with buckets of water hanging from some trees. But despite this, he set himself a goal: to turn the piece of land into the favorite residence for the wealthy.

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