Roddy & Margaret: The Affair that Shook the Royals

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The story of how Princess Margaret fell for baronet and garden designer Roderick Llewellyn while still married to the Earl of Snowdon, an affair that generated huge publicity, featuring extensive archive and interviews with authors, royal experts and those who knew them

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Caroline Frost

There is a roll call of beautiful women who’ve had to jump out of the metaphorical palace windows to get their kicks – think Margaret Trudeau, Princess Diana, Cleopatra (allegedly). Princess Margaret was one such figure, as romantic as she was royal, and she found her most enduring passion in Roddy Llewellyn, 17 years younger and landscape gardener to the society set who – clutch the pearls – wore an earring.

This was no passing fling; the relationship lasted for eight years, and the biggest shock in this by-the-book exposé is the fact they managed to keep it out of the papers for the first three. That, and how badly her husband Tony behaved.

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