The result, however, was the same: Princess Margaret was unforgiving, and decided she could do better. It also happened a year before Margaret and Armstrong-Jones began seeing each other in 1958. In real life, Wallace was in fact one of Margaret’s “favored escorts,” as described by de Courcy in a 2002 piece for The Telegraph, Andrew Alderson wrote that Margaret decided to marry Wallace because it was better to marry “somebody one at least liked.” Their engagement ended not with the drunken duel depicted on The Crown, but with a brief affair he had on a trip to the Bahamas. When Margaret first rejoins the action in The Crown’s second season, having essentially sat out the first three episodes, she’s a stone-faced guest at a wedding, still single and telling her friend Billy Wallace, “No one wants to take me on, apparently.” He then pulls out a spur-of-the-moment proposal, arguing that as her “old faithful” he would be a sensible, if not entirely romantic, husband. For more on the third season of The Crown, listen below to one of three special episodes of the Still Watching podcast:īut first, Billy Wallace. Below, a look at the true story of Margaret and Snowdon, and how it matches up with what happens on The Crown.Īnd for a much more comprehensive recounting of their relationship, read this excerpt from Anne de Courcy’s 2008 book Snowdon: The Biography, which will be cited extensively below. And The Crown’s third season tracks the implosion of this marriage with new actors- Helena Bonham Carter and Ben Daniels-playing princess and photographer.
Their romance and marriage is the center of two of the most daring episodes of The Crown’s second season, which draw from the many things that are known about their explosive relationship-and infers some of the most dramatic details about what nobody but Margaret and Snowdon can know for sure. The Crown’s second season charted the intense relationship between Princess Margaret (played by Vanessa Kirby) and Antony Armstrong-Jones ( Matthew Goode), the photographer who became Lord Snowdon when he married Margaret in 1960.
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