Drifting Apart
Divorce isn’t a common occurrence among royal families, even if a couple’s relationship is plain horrible. Princess Margaret broke the mold when she divorced Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1978. Like we mentioned previously, their relationship was turbulent and ill-advised from the start. Many people in Margaret’s life advised against marrying a commoner like Armstrong-Jones.
While his status as a commoner isn’t the reason the marriage fell apart, it definitely made it more scandalous at the time. He was the first non-noble to marry into the royal family in over 400 years, and their divorce was the first one since the divorce of Queen Victoria’s granddaughter in 1901. Although they didn’t live happily ever after, they broke a lot of precedents and made history.