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Antony ArmstrongJones photographer designer and filmmaker gained worldwide attention when he married Queen Elizabeth IIs younger sister Princess Margaret in 1960the first nonaristocrat 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 longestablished link with the Mountbatten arm of the Royal Family

In this engaging biography Helen Cathcart traces the first four decades of Lord Snowdons 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 Snowdons romance with Princess Margaret and their early married life together as one of Britains most glamorous couples