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In honor of the final season of The Crown…

Real vs. Reel - Lord Snowdon and the actors portraying him in The Crown, Matthew Goode and Ben Daniels.

Special thanks to Lina @f-yeahbendaniels for doing this!

TBT: Voice comparisons between Lord Snowdon and Matthew Goode/Ben Daniels as him in The Crown (2017 & 2019). Edited and uploaded by me. I don't own the rights.

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Lady Sarah Chatto wore the Snowdon Floral Brooches for the funerals of her aunt, Queen Elizabeth II, on 19 September 2022 and her mother, Princess Margaret, on 15 February 2002.

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, photographed by Lord Snowdon (Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon) at Buckingham Palace, 1982

In memory of Her Late Majesty (1926-2022)

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Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie (standing at the back) with Lord Snowdon and The Queen Mother at the wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones (now The Earl and Countess of Wessex), 1999.

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A few weeks to go before we commemorate on what would have been Princess Diana’s 60th birthday, so reblogging these sets of photos of Diana and Prince Charles taken by Lord Snowdon.

Princess Diana

with Prince Charles in 1983, photograph by Lord Snowdon (Princess Margaret's ex-husband)

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Diana and Tony, 1981

These photos appear new to me! I love them!! ❤️❤️❤️

Greeting Lord Snowdon at Caernarvon Castle.

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Lord Snowdon would have been 91 years old last March 7.

Tony & Margaret (Seasons 2 & 3) ~ I Only Have Eyes [Fan Video]

In honor of Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, who would have turned 91 years old on March 7th, 2021.

Edited and uploaded by me. I don't own the rights.

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The real:

Princess Margaret visited the Philippines in 1980, at the time the country was in the state of Martial Law. She was hosted by the country’s First Lady, Imelda Marcos.

I am from the Philippines and well-aware that the Marcoses (Imelda and her late husband Ferdinand, as well as their children) are VERY CONTROVERSIAL AND DIVISIVE FIGURES. I don’t want to expound on further politics but there’s a lot of historical readings you can dig further, from all perspectives.

No, I can assure you, it was seashells.

Helena Bonham Carter (Princess Margaret), Olivia Colman (Queen Elizabeth II), Josh O'Connor (Prince Charles), Tobias Menzies (Prince Philip), Erin Doherty (Princess Anne) | The Crown 4x03: Fairytale

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Rest in Power, Cicely Tyson (1924-2021)

Cicely Tyson photographed by Lord Snowdon wearing a dress by Bill Whitten in 1972. 

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Lina is one of my great friends and I showed this to her and LOVED IT!!

This has been an overdue upload of the documentary (a two part series), I’m eager to wait on the part two.

You can now watch part 1 of Snowdon on Camera online.

Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon // “Snowdon On Camera” (1981). 

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Lord Snowdon at the cover of Radio Times, dated 23-29 May 1981. Lord Snowdon presented the serial Snowdon on Camera on BBC2, highlighting his photography career.

Sometimes this had me thinking, this cover must be Ben Daniels *blushes*. (And I do sense some hopes he’ll be back for flashbacks even for the final two seasons of The Crown. And the show’s Instagram still follows his account. You know, Diana meets Tony, I feel this is a missing link from season 4. It makes sense he would be the unlikely ally she would need if she wants to win in her fight for survival when we reach the Windsor Crisis of the 1990s, or he could be the one who will plot her downfall, if we test his true loyalties in this show...*winks*. Ben and Emma Corrin would be fantastic anyway in a scene or two.)

Source: PicClick

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Lord Snowdon and his daughter-in-law, Serena, Countess of Snowdon (then Viscountess Linley)

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In memory of the people of Aberfan

Holding back his own feelings was difficult for Tony, but as he said later: “You couldn’t cry. It’s showing your emotions too much and you shouldn’t if you’re down to help. It’s a bit like a doctor crying. Also, crying when they have lost their children is almost impertinent.“  - Anne de Courcy, “Snowdon: The Biography” (2008). 

October 21 1966: The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in Wales on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, and overlaid a natural spring. A period of heavy rain led to a build-up of water within the tip which caused it to suddenly slide downhill as a slurry, killing 116 children and 28 adults as it engulfed Pantglas Junior School and other buildings. The tip was the responsibility of the National Coal Board, and the subsequent inquiry placed the blame for the disaster on the organisation and nine named employees.

Ben Daniels as Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon // 3x03 - “Aberfan” of The Crown (2019). 

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My friend Lina @linady-52 (who also runs the fantastic @f-yeahbendaniels blog) and I were discussing this from the new teaser trailer of season 4 of The Crown. And this caught my mind...

And we are convinced this is Ben Daniels playing Lord Snowdon. Look who’s back!

By the timeline of the season (the 1980s), Lord Snowdon (or Tony as he’s privately known) has been divorced from Princess Margaret but has stayed in the inner circle of the British Royal Family, not only as their chief photographer but also as a family member, especially the Queen and the Queen Mother were closer to him. It was also this time that his political career, or perhaps we say, his duty as a hereditary peer in the House of Lords, has taken him to a new position and platform - to lobby and advocate for more equal rights and opportunities for disabled people. He himself got polio at the age of 16 and while he survived the disease (he got it at the time polio vaccine was not discovered), it left him with a limp and an inch shorter for one leg. As he aged, he slowly had difficulty in walking and standing for hours, and started using a cane.

I’ll do more posts regarding The Crown especially covering Tony and the children, David and Sarah, and some Margaret too.

So looking forward for the actual trailer!

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Definitely one of the best royal portraits out there!!

“A study of Princess Anne at 19" by Lord Snowdon.

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In memory of what would have been Princess Margaret’s 90th birthday today - Three of the iconic Princess Margaret portraits by none other than her husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon.

1959 - taken for her 29th birthday. Antony and Margaret have been dating for around a year by this time.

1967 - Margaret and Antony, who became known as Lord Snowdon, have been married for seven years. He captures this alluring photo of Margaret, giving the illusion that she is naked, which could have been scandalous at that time. This photo was the inspiration behind the season 2 episode of The Crown, Beryl, although the timeline was for Margaret’s 29th birthday

1984 - the Snowdons were already divorced six years prior, but they reconciled and remained friends and supported their children all these years. This photo of Margaret wearing the Poltimore Tiara was timed for her royal visit to Bermuda.

Credit 📸: Snowdon Archive/Camera Press/National Portrait Gallery

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A look of Tony Snowdon’s desk...and see who is the photo behind him! (It’s David of course)