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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...

Cover of Remembering Diana published by National Geographic. (Photo: Mario Testino) Princess Diana is a larger-than-life figure in so many ways, and her biography contains moments large and small, public and private, royal and routine. This timeline follows Diana from childhood to storybook royal wedding to parenthood and then, unfortunately, to a death that came far too soon. 1961:   Diana Frances Spencer , born July 1, was the fourth of five children born to John Spencer, the 8th Earl Spencer and his first wife, Frances Ruth Roche. 1967:  The Spencers separate when Diana is six years old. The divorce would not be final until 1969, following a child custody battle won by her father. In later years, her younger brother, Charles, blames the split on the loss of their first son, John, who died within hours of his birth in 1960, and the difficulty of producing a male heir. 1969:  Diana's mother marries Peter Shand Kydd , an Australian wallpaper heir , and is accused by Shand Kydd...