READ MORE: Why Princess Margaret Sacrificed Love for the Crown And when Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones, a free-spirited photographer, in 1960, Tennant gave her a plot of land as a wedding present.
Under Tennant’s supervision, Mustique went from a scrubby, amenity-free island to a lush playground for the rich and famous. The island had once been home to sugar plantations, all of which had been abandoned and overgrown since the 19th century. In 1958, Colin Tennant, a British aristocrat who had once courted Princess Margaret, purchased and began developing it. It happened on Mustique, a private island that is part of the Grenadines. But Margaret’s intense life was a tabloid editor’s dream, making her every move fodder for media scrutiny. In another era, the affair might have been private, too.
Margaret’s marriage to Antony Armstrong-Jones, the First Earl of Snowdon, was already on the rocks, but it would take the photographs of her frolicking on a private island with another man to put the final nail in its coffin. They were Princess Margaret and Roddy Llewellyn, and they were about to grace the cover of a British tabloid with images that would end a marriage and change the face of British royalty forever. But they didn’t hear the click of the cameras–or acknowledge that their secret romance could constitute a national scandal.
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