AsPeoplenoted in 2017, there was plenty on the show that rang true in real life.
As Lacey put it, Margaret was a victim of the man she would go on to marry.
That will open a lot of people’s eyes."
Here is a look into their marriage.
Margaret was still bruised after her ill-fated relationship with Captain Peter Townshend, who she had hoped to marry.
She was told to end the relationship but didn’t.
Townshend ultimately divorced his wife, but Queen Elizabeth would not allow her sister to marry a divorced man.
I didn’t really want to marry at all.
Because he asked me!
Really, though, he was such a nice person in those days.
In a way he introduced me to a new world" (via the BBC).
Ultimately, a DNA test proved that Armstrong-Jones did, in fact, father Polly Fry.
Margaret also had affairs of her ownwhile married to Armstrong-Jones.
She metRoddy Llewellyntoward the end of her marriage and began a relationship that would last eight years.
She said, “He said they found each other just at the right time.
There are no plans for divorce proceedings” (via theNew York Times).
Kensington Palace confirmed that Margaret and Armstrong-Jones intended to divorce in a second statement that was issued in 1978.
These are obviously the grounds for divorce" (viaPeople).
The divorce was finalized in July 1978.
While Margaret never remarried, Armstrong-Jones married Lucy Lindsay-Hogg in 1978.
