Overview
"Antony Armstrong-Jones, photographer, designer and film-maker, gained worldwide attention when he married Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister, Princess Margaret in 1960--the first non-aristocrat to marry into the Royal Family for 400 years. How did a ""commoner"" come to marry a princess, a woman whom he had long admired from afar? In fact, ""Tony"" descended from Welsh gentry, the son of a barrister and a society hostess. His family shared a long-established link with the Mountbatten arm of the Royal Family. In this engaging biography Helen Cathcart traces the first four decades of Lord Snowdon's life, from the child of divorce and schoolboy victim of polio, to successful photographer of the rich and famous and dutiful member of the Royal Family. Cathcart draws on close personal family sources to reveal the man behind the camera, the Old Etonian whose sense of timing and inquisitive interest in people made him one of the most original of British photographers. Cathcart also tells the definitive story of Lord Snowdon's romance with Princess Margaret and their early married life together as one of Britain's most glamorous couples."
Full Product Details
Author: Helen Cathcart ,
Lorna Bennett
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798212316859
Publication Date: 31 January 2023
Audience:
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Helen Cathcart was a prolific writer about the Royal Family, who enjoyed enormous success with her books in the 1960s and 1970s. These emerged with regularity, sold well, and were largely enjoyed (if not always at Buckingham Palace). One mystery surrounded the author-she was never seen. Occasionally journalists visited her agent, Harold Albert, at his cottage near Liphook, and suspected that Helen Cathcart did not exist. Invariably they left less convinced. Only when Harold Albert died was it revealed-in an obituary written by Hugo Vickers-that Harold Albert and Helen Cathcart were one and the same. Lorna Bennett is a British classically trained actor and alumna of the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). She has narrated books for HarperAudio, Blackstone Publishing, Disney, Dreamscape Media, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Chelsea Green Publishing, Harlequin, Podium, Realm (previously Serial Box), Apple News+, and Audible. Additionally, Lorna has worked internationally in film, TV, and theater, with screen credits including New Amsterdam (NBC), Torchwood (BBC), and Stuart: A Life Backwards (HBO/BBC), and on stage has portrayed numerous classical roles, including Hedda Gabler, Titania, Beatrice, and Portia.
