Princess Margaret’s Most Stylish Royal Moments

by Lauriane Belair August 3, 2018

Lately the fashion world has, ahem, “crowned” a highly unexpected it girl: the late Princess Margaret. Though she technically died in 2002, the public’s fascination for Princess Margaret has been reignited thanks to the highly-anticipated next season of Netflix’s The Crown, as well as a two-part BBC documentary examining the Princess’ private life, as well as a hilarious story chronicling the Royal’s indulgent mid-day vodka pick-me-up routine.

In the ’50s and 60’s, Queen Elizabeth II’s bad girl sister was a real fashion icon. From wearing Christian Dior’s latest creations to adopting the freshest trends, Princess Margaret paved the way for our contemporary obsession with royal style, inspiring midcentury women in the same way Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle do now. The Countess of Snowdon’s glam fashion sense even earned its own nickname: “The Margaret look.” If that’s not ‘it’ girl status, I don’t know what is. As we patiently wait for the documentary and for The Crown’s third season, we’ve gathered our favourite Margaret looks.

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Margaret circa the 1940s

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A portrait taken in the 1940s

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March 1946: The young Princess Margaret visits a children’s club.

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May 1949: On the Italian island of Capri.

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April 1951: Attending the premiere of the film Captain Horatio Hornblower at the Warner Theatre Leicester Square.

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July 1953: Princess Margaret at London Airport after travelling from Southern Rhodesia

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August 1953: Princess Margaret boards a train at Southampton station.

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July 1950: Attending the RAF Air Display at Farnborough, Hampshire.

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May 1951: At a ball given by the Victoria League at Hurlington Club in London.

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October 1951: At Susan Hornby’s wedding to the Marquess of Blandford.

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January 1953: At the wedding of the Earl of Dalkeith at St Giles Church, Edinburgh.

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July 1954: At the German Rhine Centre.

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October 1954: Princess Margaret arriving at Church House, London, for a Youth Council meeting.

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October 1956: At a game farm during her royal tour of East Africa.

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October 1956: Princess Margaret signs the visitors book at the European School in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).

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1957: Attending the Badminton Horse Trials with Mary, the Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood.

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June 1958: Arriving at London’s Hurlingham Club to attend a ball.

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1958: The Princess during an official Royal visit to Fort St John, Canada.

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1960: Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones leaving Westminster Abbey on their wedding day.

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March 1964: Expecting her second child, the princess is leaving the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia exhibition centre in London.

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February 1966: Princess Margaret leaving the Royal Opera House in London with ballet dancer John Cranko.

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June 1967: The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret arrive at Ascot to attend the horse racing event.

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May 1971: At the Royal Windsor Horse Show.

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October 1987: Princess Margaret and Ned Ryan at the play And Then There Were None in London.

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