10th Anniversary of Princess Margaret’s Death

February 9th, 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. She was the younger daughter of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom.

Princess Margaret passed away in 2002, after suffering the last of her several strokes. She has been unwell for almost two decades, having had an operation in 1985 in which part of her lung was removed (this was caused by the Princess’s heavy smoking throughout her adult life). Pneumonia, strokes and a bathroom accident left Princess Margaret in a wheelchair, paralysed on her left side. The Princess was seventy-one.

A private funeral at St George’s Chapel, Windsor was held on February 15th, the same date her father’s funeral was held in 1952. The funeral was the last public appearance of the Queen Mother. After the service, the Princess’s body was cremated at Slough Crematorium, and her ashes were placed in her parents’s tomb in the King George VI Memorial Chapel at St George’s Chapel. This occurred two months after her death, when Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother herself passed away.

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