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Intimate series profiling Princess Margaret. The second film finds Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones at the start of their married life in the early 1960s.
The second film in this intimate portrait finds Princess Margaret and her husband Anthony Armstrong-Jones at the start of their married life in the early 1960s. At home with celebrities and artists, they are riding the wave of a cultural and sexual revolution that is transforming Britain.
In 1965, they set off on an official royal tour of the United States. From California to small-town Arizona, the royal couple promote Britain by day and party by night. They attend a dinner with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in a world where Hollywood royalty increasingly competes with the real thing. In Britain, the press starts to ask if the extravagant royal tour is a good way to spend public money. The mystique of monarchy is being increasingly undermined by the emergence of a more open and egalitarian society.
In the years that follow, Anthony Armstrong-Jones begins to withdraw from royal duties and the couple lead increasingly separate lives. Press speculation about the state of their marriage intensifies. In the 1970s Margaret retreats more and more to the Caribbean island of Mustique in an attempt to secure a private life. In an era of celebrity gossip and the telephoto lens, her relationship with a younger man and beach parties with rock stars like Mick Jagger lead to ever more press interest. As Britain lurches from one economic crisis to the next, Margaret's Caribbean lifestyle becomes the lightning rod for republican attacks on the monarchy.
In 1978, Margaret reflects changing attitudes sweeping the country and gets a divorce. The rebel royal is now increasingly eclipsed by a new generation of princesses. But in her own way, Princess Margaret helped pave the way for them and for the monarchy of the 21st century.
Contributors include Lady Anne Glenconner, a childhood friend who became her lady-in-waiting, Jane Stevens, one of her closest friends, Basil Charles, the owner of a bar on the Caribbean island of Mustique, David Griffin, Princess Margaret's chauffeur, and Craig Brown, her unofficial biographer.
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Princess Margaret鈥檚 Life on Mustique
Duration: 01:22
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Princess Margaret Joins the Jet Set
Duration: 01:26
Music Played
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Hank Mobley
Dig Dis
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The Zombies
She's Not There
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The Zombies
She's Not There
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George Harrison
My Sweet Lord
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Blondie
One Way Or Another
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Film Editor | James Gold |
Director | Hannah Berryman |
Executive Producer | Chris Granlund |
Producer | Hannah Berryman |
Broadcasts
- Tue 18 Sep 2018 21:00
- Sat 29 Sep 2018 19:30成人快手 Two except Wales
- Sat 6 Oct 2018 00:30
- Sat 10 Aug 2019 20:00成人快手 Two except Scotland & Wales
- Sun 18 Aug 2019 22:30成人快手 Two Wales & Wales HD only
- Tue 19 Nov 2019 20:00
- Tue 7 Jul 2020 19:00成人快手 Two except Scotland & Wales
- Wed 23 Mar 2022 21:00
- Thu 24 Mar 2022 02:30
- Thu 9 Feb 2023 20:00
- Mon 13 Feb 2023 01:45
- Thu 26 Sep 2024 20:00
- Fri 27 Sep 2024 01:35