Earl of Snowdon is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1961, together with the subsidiary title Viscount Linley, of Nymans

Nymans

Nymans, Handcross, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, is an English garden developed by three generations of the Messel family, from the late 19th century, and brought to renown by Col. Leonard C.R. Messel...

 in the County of Sussex, for Antony Armstrong-Jones

Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO, RDI is an English photographer and film maker. He was married to Princess Margaret, younger daughter of King George VI and younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II....

, who was then the husband of HRH The Princess Margaret

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II and the younger daughter of King George VI....

. Snowdon as a peerage title had previous royal associations; the title of Baron Snowdon had been conferred along with the Dukedom of Edinburgh

Duke of Edinburgh

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 on Prince Frederick Louis

Frederick, Prince of Wales

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, grandson of George I

George I of Great Britain

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 and future Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales

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, in 1726. The title merged in the crown in 1760 when its holder acceded as George III

George III of the United Kingdom

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In November 1999, Lord Snowdon received a life peerage

Life peer

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 as Baron Armstrong-Jones under a device designed to allow first-generation hereditaries to retain their seats in the House of Lords

House of Lords

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 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

House of Lords Act 1999

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Earls of Snowdon (1961)

• Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
  Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO, RDI is an English photographer and film maker. He was married to Princess Margaret, younger daughter of King George VI and younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II....
  
   (b. 1930)

Line of succession

1. David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley
   David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley
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    (b. 1961), son of the Earl
2. The Hon. Charles Patrick Inigo Armstrong-Jones
   Charles Armstrong-Jones
   Charles Patrick Inigo Armstrong-Jones is the son of Viscount Linley and Viscountess Linley. He is a great-grandson of King George VI of the United Kingdom....
   
   (b. 1999), son of Viscount Linley