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Fern Britton has branded Antony Armstrong-Jones the ‘most spectacularly rude and uncooperative interviewee she has ever met.
The TV presenter, 62, who formerly presented ITV’s This Morning, took to Twitter to make the revelation as she watched BBC 2’s series ‘Princess Margaret: The Royal Rebel’.
The fascinating documentary, which aired as a repeat last night, took a look at the fractured 18-year-marriage of the Queen’s younger sister, who died in 2002 aged 71, to Earl of Snowdon, who passed away in 2017.
Recalling her experience with the Earl, Fern tweeted: ‘Watching the documentary about Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden on @BBC2. I interviewed Lord Snowden about 12 years ago and I can tell you he was the most spectacularly rude and uncooperative interviewee I have ever met. And I’ve met a few so, Bravo!’.
A fascinating documentary, which aired as a repeat last night, took a look at the fractured 18-year-marriage of the Queen’s younger sister, Princess Margaret who died in 2002 aged 71, to Earl of Snowdon, who passed away in 2017 (seen in 1966)
Fern Britton has branded Antony Armstrong-Jones the ‘most spectacularly rude and uncooperative interviewee she has ever met
The documentary revealed how Antony Armstrong-Jones helped introduce Margaret to a Bohemian world very different to the establishment she grew up in.
Speaking in episode two of the first series, Christopher Warwick, authorised biographer of Princess Margaret, revealed: ‘Tony was a serial adulterer and to make him feel better about his colourful sex life he would encourage Margaret to do the same thing’.
Former Sunday Times Editor Clive Irvin revealed his close friend Scottish aristorcrat Robin Douglas-Home fell ‘deeply in love’ with the Princess.
Speaking about their tryst, which took place during her marriage, he said: ‘Robin Douglas Hume fell deep in love with Margaret and she was in love with him.
The documentary revealed how Antony Armstrong-Jones helped introduce Margaret (both seen in 1960) to a Bohemian world very different to the establishment she grew up in
‘Love letters from Margaret showed she had a sensitive side to her’.
Anne De Courcy, Armstrong’s authorised biographer added of the affair: ‘Robin Douglas Hume – that was probably a longing for love and affection which I think is deep in all of us, and she felt it very strongly.
The reason they broke up after 6 weeks was because Tony found out and furiously told her “that man must not come into Kensington Palace again”, he was very jealous.
‘She wrote him a letter saying “I mustn’t see you again I want my marriage to work”.
Speaking about the end of their marriage, David Griffin, Margaret’s former chauffeur revealed: ‘When the announcement came on saying that Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon were divorcing I turned the radio in the car off as their daughter Lady Sarah was in the car, and she said “no, no Griffin, leave it on, I want to know what’s going on”‘.
Recalling her experience with the Earl, Fern tweeted: ‘Watching the documentary about Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden on @BBC2. I interviewed Lord Snowden about 12 years ago and I can tell you he was the most spectacularly rude and uncooperative interviewee I have ever met. And I’ve met a few so, Bravo!’
Former Sunday Times Editor Clive Irvin revealed his close friend Scottish aristorcrat Robin Douglas-Home fell ‘deeply in love’ with the Princess and the pair exchanged love letters
From her love affair with married Peter Townsend to her marriage to the sulfurous Antony Armstrong-Jones, royal experts on the show say Margaret stepped away from tradition in more ways than one.
Margaret met Antony in 1958 at a dinner party organised by mutual friends, and wed at Westminster Abbey in May 1960, the first royal wedding to be televised.
However, the union was reportedly not a good one, and the pair soon drifted apart, with both royals entering into extra-marital affairs.
Margaret famously invited Roddy Llewellyn, a lover who was 17 years her junior, to the island of Mustique in 1974, where they were photographed by paparazzis, precipitating the end of her marriage.
Margaret and Antony made their divorce official in 1978, after 18 years of marriage. The romance between Anthony Armstrong-Jones and the royal has been romanticised more than once, most lately in the second and third season of Netflix royal drama the Crown.
From her love affair with married Peter Townsend to her marriage to the sulfurous Antony Armstrong-Jones, royal experts on the show say Margaret (seen in 1990) stepped away from tradition in more ways than one
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