21 Facts About Antony Armstrong-Jones

Antony Armstrong-Jones is best known for his portraits of world notables, many of them published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, and other major venues; more than 100 of his photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery.

Antony Armstrong-Jones was born at Eaton Terrace in Belgravia, central London.

Antony Armstrong-Jones's paternal grandmother, Margaret Armstrong-Jones, was a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, and was the daughter of Sir Owen Roberts, the Welsh educationalist.

Antony Armstrong-Jones's parents divorced in early 1935, before his fifth birthday.

Antony Armstrong-Jones was educated at two independent boarding schools: first at Sandroyd School in Wiltshire from the autumn term of 1938 to 1943.

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Antony Armstrong-Jones attended Eton College, beginning in the autumn term of 1943.

Antony Armstrong-Jones continued to box in 1946, gaining at least two flattering mentions in the Eton College Chronicle.

Antony Armstrong-Jones then matriculated at the University of Cambridge, where he studied architecture at Jesus College but failed his second-year exams.

Antony Armstrong-Jones's stepmother had a friend who knew Baron the photographer; Baron visited Armstrong-Jones in his London flat, which doubled as his work studio.

Antony Armstrong-Jones later became known for his royal studies, among which were the official portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh during their 1957 tour of Canada.

Antony Armstrong-Jones was an early contributor to Queen magazine, the magazine owned by his friend Jocelyn Stevens.

Antony Armstrong-Jones's subjects include Marlene Dietrich; Laurence Olivier; Maggie Smith; Leslie Caron; Lynn Fontanne; David Bowie; Elizabeth Taylor; Rupert Everett; Anthony Blunt; David Hockney; Princess Grace of Monaco; Diana, Princess of Wales; Barbara Cartland; Raine Spencer ; Desmond Guinness; British prime minister Harold Macmillan; Iris Murdoch; Tom Stoppard; Vladimir Nabokov and JR R Tolkien.

Antony Armstrong-Jones had a major role in designing the physical arrangements for the 1969 investiture of his nephew Prince Charles as Prince of Wales.

Antony Armstrong-Jones was granted a patent for a type of electric wheelchair in 1971.

Antony Armstrong-Jones served as a trustee of the National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases, since renamed Action Medical Research.

Antony Armstrong-Jones was president for England of the International Year of Disabled Persons in 1981.

Antony Armstrong-Jones was provost of the Royal College of Art from 1995 to 2003.

In February 1960, Snowdon, then known as Antony Armstrong-Jones, became engaged to the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, and they married on 6 May 1960 at Westminster Abbey.

Antony Armstrong-Jones was created Earl of Snowdon and Viscount Linley, of Nymans in the County of Sussex, on 6 October 1961.

Antony Armstrong-Jones was born on 17 July 1979 and in 2006 married Rodolphe, Edler von Hofmannsthal, great-grandson of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey and great-great-grandson of Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland.

Antony Armstrong-Jones made his maiden speech in the House of Lords in April 1972 on the problems that disabled people suffered in everyday life.