Redeeming Features

Lord Snowdon (photographer/ ex-husband of Princess Margaret) had two gay affairs, claims society interior designer Nicky Haslam, 69. In his new memoir, Redeeming Features, he says he and Snowdon had 'a very brief romance' a year before the latter's 1960 wedding to Princess Margaret. The other gay affair, Haslam claims, was in the 1950s when the peer - then photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, was in a relationship with Tom Parr, later head of the luxury-goods firm Colefax and Fowler.

During Snowdon's marriages to Princess Margaret and the society beauty Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, he also seduced an array of mistresses; Two of his five children were born out of wedlock.
The new memoir casts the distinguished photographer, now 79, as a self-centred social climber who conducted two homosexual romances before winning the hand of Queen Elizabeth's sister.
Asked about the claims, Snowdon said: 'It's not true as far as I'm concerned - and I should know.'
Lord Snowdon has spent a lifetime fending off rumours that he is bisexual. His parties, before and after he married, were always well-attended by homosexual friends. Haslam was present at many of these gatherings: ‘I had a very brief romance with Tony Armstrong-Jones, somewhat one-sided on my part as Tony was dazzlingly attractive'.

It was not a deep or meaningful relationship, Haslam admits.
Haslam’s revelation comes after years of speculation about Snowdon’s personal life. Snowdon’s sexual ambiguity was such that when Princess Margaret first met him at a private dinner in 1958, she was struck by his good looks but was not sure that he was interested in women. After they were married, she is reputed to have made reference to him being one of several ‘Queens’ in her family.
(Source: The Daily Mail)