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IS PRCS MARGARET A GAY IN?
" Jenngs, an openly gay prit who existed real life, wasn't the only unrequed love affair Margaret experienced, but his storyle this season, bed wh Helena Bonham Carter's already glamoroly world-weary and borrle mpy pictn, brgs Her Royal Highns ever closer to gay in stat. In real life, as turns out, Margaret's relatnship wh gay men was more plited than this season let on, often tricky but never que so cluels.
“A lot of her iends no doubt were gay, ” says Anne Courcy, the bgrapher of Margaret's ex-hband, the late Lord Snowdon, who was reportedly bisexual. ” In fact, there were so many gay men the royal hoehold, one apocryphal story go, that the Queen Mother once rang her staff wonrg about her g and Dubon, “I don’t know about any of you queens down there, but this Queen up here wants a drk. ” Prcs Margaret wh her hband, born Antony Armstrong-Jon, photographer Lord Snowdon 1970 Badmton, Hse//Getty ImagBeyond her adolcent home life, Margaret spent much of her social life the 1950s the pany of acplished gay men like the playwright Noel Coward, who affectnately lled Elizabeth and Margaret, “Darlg Ma’ams.
” However, was her marriage wh photographer Antony Armstrong-Jon where the Prcs would get a panoramic view of all the lors of the rabow (homosexualy was illegal England until 1967).
WAS PRCS MARGARET’S EX-HBAND GAY? THE RUMORS OF LORD SNOWDON, EXPLAED
” Snowdon never nfirmed he was bisexual to her, but she adds that "when Margaret first met him she thought he was gay. ) When his 1960 nuptials to Prcs Margaret were nascent stag, Snowdon's first two choic for bt man, Jeremy Fry followed by Jeremy Thorpe, were nixed bee of their homosexual rerds.
The year was 1978, when she divorced Lord Dtsch//Getty ImagSnowdon himself enjoyed formative gay fluenc growg up.
” While Prcs Margaret don’t arrive easily at a throne the gay pantheon (ease was not a qualy she aspired to, anyway), she wasn't que as naive as the The Crown would have believe. And her relatnships wh gay men, though haltg, was always a fluent one. Tellgly, one of her own more fabled jabs h both close to homo and home.