BIRTHDAY: August 21, 1930
BIRTHPLACE: Scotland, at Glamis Castle, the home of her maternal grandparents
PARENTS: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
SISTER: Queen Elizabeth II
SCANDAL: was in love with Group Captain Peter Townsend for years but was not permitted to marry him
MARRIED: she was married to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960
TITLE: the Queen gave them the title Earl and Countess of Snowdon a few months after their marriage, mainly because Tony was a commoner
CHILDREN: she has two children, David (born in 1961) and Sarah (born in 1964), as well as a daughter-in-law, Serena Stanhope (born in 1970) and a son-in-law, Daniel Chatto (born in 1957)
GRANDCHILDREN: she now has three young grandsons: Samuel Chatto (born in 1996), Arthur Chatto (born in 1999) and Charles Armstrong-Jones (born in 1999)
SEPARATION and DIVORCE: she and Tony were separted in 1976 and divorced in 1978. Tony has since remarried
twice and has two other children. The Countess has not remarried
INJURIES: in recent years, the Countess has suffered a couple strokes, as well as scalded her feet getting into a bath. She has also had part of a lung removed.
