Princess Margaret

Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest at St George's Chapel today, next to her younger sister's ashes. Here's why Princess Margaret was cremated instead ...

The Princess had intended to be buried at Frogmore at Windsor Home Park. which is a three-and-a-half-mile journey from the chapel. After a private funeral service at St George’s Chapel at Windsor, Princess Margaret's coffin was transported to the Slough crematorium. She also wished to be laid to rest with her father, who is interned in the King George VI Memorial Chapel at St George’s Chapel. It was Princess Margaret's own decision to be cremated, becoming the first royal in 60 years to be cremated in over 60 years. Prince Philip who passed away last April and currently rests in the Royal Vault, will also be moved to St George's Chapel after the Queen's funeral

PRINCESS MARGARET was the late Queen's beloved sister and was the first-ever senior royal to be cremated.The late Queen was extremely close to her you.

The marriage of a "commoner" and a royal was also thought to represent the breaking down of British class barriers at the time. Princess Margaret and her husband her Following Princess Margaret's death Lady Sarah and David started a charity in her honour – the Princess Margaret Fund – which supports stroke research. PRINCESS MARGARET was the late Queen's beloved sister and was the first-ever senior royal to be cremated. At the tender age of six, Margaret was second in line to the British throne. When did Princess Margaret die and why was she cremated?

Princess Margaret's ashes were laid next to the remains of her beloved father, King George VI, and her mother, in St George's Chapel. This evening, the Queen ...

Furthermore, he added: “Our tradition is we tend to have people in at least a week after they have died to give the families a chance to get everyone together. Roger Parkin, the registrar, said at the time: “As far as we are concerned, it will be a normal working day. We’ve only got five others on the books at the moment. The only senior royal to have been cremated previously was Princess Louise. There’s room I think for her to be with him now. This evening, the Queen and Prince Philip will join them.

From boarding school through the Sloane years to her turn as Anton Du Beke's worst-ever Strictly partner, the former TV style guru's memoir is sometimes ...

[What Not to Wear](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/oct/28/fashion.shopping) began on the BBC in 2001). A turn as Anton Du Beke’s [worst ever partner on ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtzI93xz35U) [Strictly Come Dancing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtzI93xz35U) would, indeed, one day be hers (in 2018), and it surely says something about her charmed life that, in the small hours, it’s Ann Widdecombe of whom she thinks enviously, the former politician having somehow made it to week 10 of that redoubtable, long-running talent show. Early Constantine, for those of us of a certain age and disposition, is where it’s at: dancing to Desmond Dekker with Princess Margaret; posing for Patrick Lichfield on Mustique; hanging out at Tramp and Annabel’s. But I don’t know, for all that it must have been lucrative, that it made her happy, even if it was only after it ended that her boozing began in earnest (she once appeared drunk on QVC). Woodall, now a makeup magnate, gets hardly a mention, and I suppose that Constantine’s late period – into which she has been accompanied by her husband, Sten Bertelsen (who looks like Morten Harket of A-ha) – is too domestic and thus too boring to make for good copy (though she does, at some point, become BFs with Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters). But perhaps such expertise is also connected to the fact that she was the daughter of a very rich but distinctly non-aristocratic man – he was in property and shipping – whose aspirations had led him to rent his country home near Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire from the estate of the Duke of Rutland. The bulk of her memoir is devoted to all this. For a while, her best friend was Theresa Manners, the 10th Duke of Rutland’s daughter and a future favourite of Tatler’s party pages. At 60, her focus is on her family, on her “exceptional” home in the West Sussex countryside, and on her writing. She first met him in the early 1980s, at the Queen Mother’s home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor, where he performed at the piano after dinner in a ringmaster’s tailcoat, balloon trousers, bejewelled spectacles and a cap accessorised with a sapphire brooch the size of a baked potato. Constantine has an intrepid side; little fazes her, not even the fact she’s apt to faint when going to the loo. Middle period Constantine is mostly all about her television career, when she and her friend Trinny Woodall made a living out of telling women what not to wear (in this capacity, she once explained to me that I had “saddlebags” and should immediately burn the coat I was wearing).

Princess Margaret met Peter Townsend when she was just a teenager. The two never wed and parted ways in October 1955. Here is a complete timeline of their ...

During the festivities, a [reporter](https://people.com/royals/on-this-day-in-royal-history-princess-margaret-cancelled-her-wedding-to-peter-townsend/) saw Princess Margaret flick something off of Townsend's jacket, prompting speculation about their relationship. Townsend had been ill for quite some time when he died in Paris at the age of 80. But in August 1955, Margaret penned a letter to Eden and said that she would finally see Townsend in October after two years apart. Although Princess Margaret and Armstrong-Jones had separated two years prior, they divorced in 1978. However, the British government prepared plans in the event that Margaret would decide to marry Townsend after turning 25. Princess Margaret married Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey on May 6, 1960. And since Townsend was a divorced man (and the Church of England had strict rules about remarriage after divorce at the time), the Queen did not grant Margaret's request. Prime Minister Anthony Eden wrote, "Exclusion from the Succession would not entail any other change in Princess Margaret's position as a member of the Royal Family." Townsend and Margaret spent plenty of time together during the trip as his official job was to look after the princess. Paperwork relating to the visit revealed that Townsend had asked for his room at Hillsborough Castle to be moved next to Margaret's room. Although Townsend ended up divorcing his first wife and proposing to Margaret in 1953, their relationship ultimately didn't work out. At the time, Townsend was married with two sons.