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Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Snowdon
GCVO RDI
Antony Armstrong-Jones 1965 (cropped).jpg
Armstrong-Jones in 1965
Member of the House of Lords
In office
16 November 1999 – 31 March 2016
as Baron Armstrong-Jones
In office
6 October 1961 – 11 November 1999
as Earl of Snowdon
Personal details
Born Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones
(1930-03-07)7 March 1930
London
Died 13 January 2017(2017-01-13) (aged 86)
Kensington
Resting place St Baglan's Church, Llanfaglan
Nationality British
Spouse(s) Princess Margaret
(m. 1960; div. 1978)

Lucy Lindsay-Hogg
(m. 1978; div. 2000)
Children Polly Fry
David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon
Lady Sarah Chatto
Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal
Jasper Cable-Alexander
Parents Ronald Armstrong-Jones
Anne Messel
Alma mater Jesus College, Cambridge
Occupation Photographer
Known for Former husband of The Princess Margaret, former brother-in-law of Elizabeth II

Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO, RDI (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017), commonly known as Lord Snowdon, was a British photographer and film maker. He was married to Princess Margaret, younger daughter of King George VI and the sister of Queen Elizabeth II.

Armstrong-Jones was the only son from the marriage of the barrister Ronald Armstrong-Jones (1899–1966) and his first wife Anne Messel (later Countess of Rosse).

Armstrong-Jones's paternal grandfather was Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, the British psychiatrist and physician. His paternal grandmother was the daughter of Sir Owen Roberts, the Welsh educationalist. A maternal uncle was Oliver Messel (1904–1978) and a maternal great-grandfather was the Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne (1844–1910), and his great-great-uncle Alfred Messel was a well-known Berlin architect.

Armstrong-Jones's parents separated when he was young and as a schoolboy he contracted polio while on holiday at their country home in Wales. For the entire six months that he was in Liverpool Royal Infirmary recuperating, his only family visits were from his sister Susan.

Armstrong-Jones was educated at two boarding independent schools: at Sandroyd School in Wiltshire from 1939 to 1943, and at Eton College, followed by Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied architecture but failed his second-year exams. He coxed the winning Cambridge boat in the 1950 Boat Race.


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