182. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowden | A Trashy Royals Crossover

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

When Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1926, there were years of her childhood that were, compared to other future monarchs, quite normal. After all, she was never supposed to be the Queen. Her father was a second son; her Uncle David would succeed her grandfather, and certainly other male children would come along. And then, in 1930, Elizabeth's parents waited with anticipation to find out the gender of Elizabeth's impending sibling. A boy would be in the line of succession. But the child who arrived was Princess Margaret, who was never supposed to be the daughter and sister of Queens herself, but for the fateful choice her Uncle David would make when Margaret was just six, when everything changed. This episode follows Margaret through a tumultuous childhood, an early doomed romance, and her long, if ill-fated marriage to Antony Armstrong-Jones, eventually the Earl of Snowden. We visit Mustique, the Caribbean island where Margaret's only personal land holdings resided, and meet some of the guests she entertained there. Plus, an assortment of stories about the social life of a notoriously difficult Princess - and why hanging with Margaret wasn't everything it was cracked up to be. It is all going to come back around on your next Dunne Day with Nick's coverage of this Trashy Royal - this is the foundation! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome one, welcome all to the court of the trashy royals, where we assemble each week to reveal and revel in the tales of our betters behaving badly. Thank you for joining us today. My name is Stacey.
0:15.3	Hey, friends, Alicia here, and hello to my trashy royals folks and my Done and Done investigators too. This is a bonus
0:24.7	episode for y'all. It's a prequel to your next Monday's episode on Done and Done where it's all
0:30.2	going to come together. Here we are gathering today in Trashy Royals and Dun & Dun Land for my very, very favorite trashy royal.
0:39.6	I mean, top five at least, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowden.
0:44.8	She's the trashiest royal and the trashiest part about Princess Margaret
0:49.1	is she doesn't give one hoot about how trashy she is.
0:53.9	Yes, we've discussed her on our other podcasts and she's a remarkable figure.
0:59.0	She's a remarkable figure.
1:01.0	And this week on Trashy Royals, we're going to have less of a body count.
1:05.0	We've had a bunch of deaths and some terrible things.
1:09.0	And I'm not saying Margaret's not terrible, but she's terrible
1:12.4	in the delight of her trash. Her body count is just as high, just not with actual deaths.
1:18.9	Sure. Sure. The colloquial body count. And Margaret, she's the princess she loved to hate.
1:26.0	You hate to love. I'd like to say the most scandalous thing about Princess Margaret is that she is our first royal divorce in the immediate line of succession in the English royal family since Henry the 8th.
1:40.8	That's not even the trashiest part about her.
1:44.3	Oh, Margaret. Got to love her. got a lover. Before we begin our Princess Margaret Cougar Island
1:50.8	ride today, we do have a few shoutouts to give to our latest supporters over at
1:56.5	patreon.com slash trashy royals podcast. Stacey, who gets all the love today? Thank you so much for joining us
2:03.4	Whit C. and Jessica S. getting early ad-free episodes and the occasional bonus when something cool
2:10.4	about a story strikes us. We are really grateful to new and sustaining supporters for y'all's
2:16.8	support over on Patreon.
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