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Born at Glamis Castle, Angus, the ancestral home of her mother Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) on 21st August 1930, Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret Rose was the younger daughter of the then Duke of York, later King George VI . The only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II , Princess Margaret led a sometimes colourful life that made her a favourite of the British popular press . In 1960 she married the noted photographer and filmmaker, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, later the Earl of Snowdon. For almost the next two decades, Princess Margaret would fulfil two contrasting roles: as HM The Queen's supportive sister, and the wife of one of the Swinging Sixties' most in-demand photographers. After the couple's divorce in 1978, Princess Margaret divided her time between her home on the Caribbean island of Mustique and her apartments in Kensington Palace. Requiring a new car for public and private engagements, she took delivery this Rolls- Royce...

They were the seven days that shocked the world, from the death of Princess Diana in Paris to her funeral at Westminster Abbey.  In this, the fifth part of our poignant series to mark the 20th anniversary, JONATHAN MAYO reconstructs those momentous events as they happened though the eyes of Royal Family members , politicians, the Princess’s family, and a grief-stricken public... 9am, Friday, September 5 At Althorp, the Spencer family seat , a temporary pontoon bridge to an island in the middle of a lake is being built by the Army. It is on this island that tomorrow Diana, Princess of Wales will be buried. In Great Yarmouth, sticks of rock with the message ‘Diana RIP’ are being taken off the shelves after complaints that they are disrespectful. Dickie Arbiter, the Queen’s Press secretary, is once more standing in front of Diana’s coffin in the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace. When he was here on Wednesday, he felt angry with the Princess for not wearing a seatbelt. Today he has onl...