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The Man Who Studied a Princess to Destroy Her

Lord Snowdon didn't just cheat on Princess Margaret. He studied her—learned her weaknesses—and used them against her. That's not the same thing as being a bad husband. Bad husbands are careless. Bad husbands forget anniversaries, work too much, let passion fade into routine. What Antony Armstrong-Jones did to Princess Margaret over eighteen years of marriage was something else entirely. He mapped her insecurities. He identified exactly where she was most fragile. And then he drove knives into those precise locations, over and over, with the patience of a man conducting an experiment. Infidelity is one crime. Psychological warfare is another. And when you look at the documented evidence—not gossip, not speculation, but accounts from people who witnessed it firsthand—what happened inside Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace looks a lot more like the second than the first. But before you can understand what Snowdon did to Margaret, you have to understand who she was when he found her. You have to understand the wound she was already carrying. Princess Margaret Rose was born on August 21, 1930, at Glamis Castle in Scotland. Second daughter. Second in line. Second in everything that mattered. Her parents weren't King and Queen yet—that transformation came six years later, in December 1936, when her uncle Edward VIII threw away the crown for Wallis Simpson and Margaret's stammering father was thrust onto the throne as George VI. Margaret was six years old. And from that moment, the fundamental architecture of her life was fixed.Her sister Elizabeth would become Queen. Margaret would become the spare.