8. "Jacqui was very young and just beginning to achieve real notice as a dancer and Tony believed thirty was a good age for a man to marry. Georgina Ward was born on March 13, 1941 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England as Georgina ... Born: March 13, 1941 Died: 2010 (age 68) " “There was a long silence after he told her, and then she said, “Well, I hope she can cope better than I could.”Her more recent roles include Sherlock in 2012 and Netflix drama Marco Polo as listed on IMdB.During the 1960s she has roles in several television series including Dixon of Dock Green, The Hidden Truth, Armchair Theatre and Ghost Squad.In real life Lord Snowdon did have a relationship with Jacqui, who was one of his first girlfriends. The biography also details his weekend visits to his married friends Jeremy and Camilla Fry, whom he used to visit even when Princess Margaret couldn’t make it - which is portrayed as a ménage à trois in the Netflix drama. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy.She was more than just Lord Snowdon's ex.Despite the couple's strong mutual attraction, marriage wasn't in the cards. THE CROWN season 2, episode 7 sees Princess Margaret embarking on a romance with photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, whom she later married. "While he had considerable feelings for Chan, Armstrong-Jones also carried out liaisons with other people throughout their relationship.While the show implies that Armstrong-Jones and Chan were still very much a couple in the early days of his relationship with Princess Margaret, de Courcy suggests they may have altered the timeline a bit. ... Jacqui Chan is a model and actress … She rose to fame thanks to her turn as Gwennie Lee in a West End stage production of The World of Suzie Wong.The Crown sees Margaret's love life go from bad to worse as she has to endure a second failed engagement to socialite Billy Wallace (Tom Durant-Pritchard).Despite the marriage, Jacqui attended the wedding: "Jacqui Chan, escorted by Bob Belton, arrived in a car sent by Tony, and slipped through a side door. She was filming at Pinewood Studios, so Belton rang and left a message that he would pick her up after work. “An impromptu snap by Armstrong-Jones in Venice, 1956, for example, captures actress Jacqui Chan (his girlfriend at the time) literally turning the heads of uniformed passers-by,” reroots a feature by The Globe and Mail.Snowdon: The Biography by Anne de CourcyIn an excerpt from her 2009 book Snowdon: The Biography published by Vanity Fair, author Anne de Courcy talks about his voracious sexual appetite and also about Chan.Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth IIShe writes: “Yet, although by the summer of 1959 [Snowdon and Princess Margaret] were deeply in love and conducting an affair, he was still leading his busy private life at full throttle.But eventually she finds some sort of happiness and in episode seven - Matrimonium - Princess Margaret begins dating photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones (Matthew Goode). "By summer of 1959 [Armstrong-Jones and Princess Margaret] were deeply in love and conducting an affair, he was still leading his busy private life at full throttle. She was an actress, known for Pride and Prejudice (1967), The Man Who Finally Died (1963) and The Avengers (1961). But there were many other friends just as close to him as I was. Follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century. [Queen’s Counsel] and the Countess of Rosse, to which union the Queen has gladly given her consent.”Lord Snowdon and Chan are thought to have had a long-running relationship while he was also seeing many other people at the same time. She is best known for her role as Gina Ward in ITV1's long-running 1960s drama Heartbeat, a role she played continuously for 17 years from 1993 to 2010.She has also appeared on The Royal, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Boon, Justice, Fort Boyard, The Bill and Dancin' Thru the Dark "Season 5 of The Crown Won't Be the Show's LastEvery item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor.
"I was never dying of a broken heart, no matter how often they said so...The real truth is this: Tony and I were good friends. Girls still came and went at the studio, and although Jacqui Chan was less in evidence, he was still carrying on his affair with Gina Ward." Romantic, sure. She then went on to tell her side of the story. Created by Peter Morgan. and But No One Knows.Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1939, the actress, singer and model has a career spanning nearly half a century. The biography recounts: “[Lord Snowdon] then asked [friend Robert Belton] if he would tell Jacqui Chan before the announcement.