The royal family grows by two
Well, it happened.
The royal family’s wild second child finally got married, and to someone totally unexpected.
Oh, no, notthat one!The Crownhas entered the ’60s, and we’re talking Princess Margaret.
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So let’s get right to it, shall we?
He’s breaking their pact and getting marriedto a 19-year-old.
Margaret knocks a vase of flowers off the table, shattering it.
From that point on, she’s on a mission to beat her ex-fiance down the aisle.
“Don’t be,” Tony replies breezily.
“He hasn’t found happiness, he’s found marriage.”
She seems generally unimpressed by her son and is furious to find out he rejected Margaret.
Tony greets Margaret on his motorcycle outside Clarence House, revving his engine (literally but also figuratively).
Margaret puts on the ring, and Tony has one request of her: Not to bore him.
Margaret agrees if he fulfills her single wish: Not to hurt her.
My god, these two are doomed.
Margaret’s not the only one with a big change on the way.
The princess does not take this well, seeing it as further interference with her personal life.
Annoyed, Margaret explains that her urgency is Elizabeth’s own fault: “Peter wrote to me.
He’s getting married too.
So my announcement must come first.”
We receive more confirmation that she probably is when Margaret and Tony discuss their wedding plans.
“One half filled with your friends, one half filled with mine,” Tony muses.
“New world, old world.
Like an eagle with two heads, facing in opposite directions.”
Some royals just want to watch the world burn, I guess.
But who cares that their marriage will be built on lies, it’s time to party!
She mimes filling a glass, maintaining eye contact with him in the mirror, before bursting out laughing.
He’s hopeful for that one percent.
“It’s all changed so quicklywithin a generation.”
So who does Adeane call when he needs some “discreet reconnaissance work” done?
Tommy Lascelles, naturally!
“And as in art, so, it could appear, in life.”
In short: He has many lovers, of both sexes.
“Well, in that case, your achievement’s all the more remarkable,” Margaret fires back.
“You’ve managed to become invisiblewhilewearing the crown.”
It is the exchange in the groom’s carriage that sticks the most, however.
I suppose I always thought you’d eventually find it in you to admit you’re proud of me.
Perhaps even that you love me."
The mother of the groom, waving as she looks out the carriage window, pauses briefly before replying.
“Darling, I hope you haven’t done all this forme.”
With that, Princess Margaret and Tony Armstrong-Jones get married.
