#r1951

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“Daughter No. 2 is really very nice, and I am glad to say that she has got large blue eyes and a will of iron, which is all the equipment that a lady needs! And as long as she can disguise her will, & use her eyes, then all will be well.” - The Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, writing to Reverend Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury about her 3-week-old daughter Princess Margaret on 10 September 1930.

Photographed by Marcus Adams on 12 July 1933.  Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021. || Photographed by Dorothy Wilding in 1951. © William Hustler and Georgina Hustler / National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, and her son Prince Charles photographed in 1951. Toronto Star Photograph Archive, Courtesy of Toronto Public Library.

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and his son Prince Charles photographed in 1951. Toronto Star Photograph Archive, Courtesy of Toronto Public Library.

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King George VI, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret photographed by Dorothy Wilding in 1951. © William Hustler and Georgina Hustler / National Portrait Gallery, London.

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King George VI, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret photographed by Dorothy Wilding in 1951. © William Hustler and Georgina Hustler / National Portrait Gallery, London.

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My favourite dress of all […] was my first Dior dress, white strapless tulle and a vast satin bow at the back ~ Princess Margaret.

Christian Dior was absolutely fascinated by Princess Margaret. [This is] Princess Margaret’s actual dress. The waist is 21.5 inches, it’s absolutely tiny and she looked super glamorous. I think that’s the sort of look you hadn’t associated for a while with the British Royal Family. - Beatrice Behlen, Fashion curator and historian at the Museum of London. Most notably, the Princess wore this dress in a set of photographs taken by Cecil Beaton for her 21st birthday in 1951.

(Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal, BBC2)

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Princess Margaret at London Airport on her way to Balmoral in Scotland, 29 September 1951.

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Princess Margaret photographed on a visit to Northamptonshire in 1951.