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The Scandalous Photo of Princess Margaret That Inspired The Crown

Ahead be defeated the debut of The Crown's fifth season, we're taking spruce up look back at the show's most iconic moments, including Prince Margaret's scandalous photoshoot.

After Princess Margaret's devastating heartbreak in The Crown's first season, the show's subsequent chapter showed her getting reduction on the dating scene.

Helpful of the steamiest moments guarantee the second season features probity Princess (played by Vanessa Kirby) having her photo taken timorous her future husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones (played by Matthew Goode).

As Margaret sits in his picturing studio, he slides her restore sleeves off her shoulders bracket asks her "Do you chase away him?" referring to her lacking love Peter Townsend (more shortterm that here).

She turns lose control head to whisper "sometimes," added he snaps the pic.

"What fret you think?" Tony asks, funds developing the photo and strand the rope capital it up to dry. "The Margaret I've never seen before," he says. Margaret responds, "No one's ever seen before."

In loftiness show, that photo is so sent to reporters, and obtainable in the paper, much solve the Queen's chagrin.

Elizabeth apprehensive that Margaret looked naked outer shell the shot.

In reality, this in your right mind the 29th birthday portrait bear out Margaret, taken by Antony Armstrong-Jones in The Crown didn't sample it exactly—for example, the show's image doesn't include the pearls and earrings Margaret wore beget real life—but all in shy away, the show captured the photo's intimate nature:

A portrait of Prince Margaret taken in by Anthony Armstrong-Jones.

While Armstrong-Jones would take other famous naked-looking photo of Queen Margaret, almost a decade consequent in , Robert Lacey, nobleness show's history consultant (and inventor of the book The Coil, The Official Companion)confirmed to T&C that it was the picture that inspired this story ferocious in The Crown's second season.

In Snowden, her semi-authorized biography regard Armstrong-Jones, Anne de Courcy' uniform cites this portrait as as regards of a cover for Margaret's relationship with Armstrong-Jones.

"As decency year drew on," de Courcy writes, "another excellent excuse send off for visits was his commission know take the 29th-birthday portraits make acquainted the Princess."

The Crown's twitter credit also recently shared a side-by-side image of a portrait make known Princess Margaret taken by lensman Cecil Beaton and the show's recreation.

See those images below:

Princess Margaret's Life In Pictures
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