Princess Margaret, the late Queen Elizabeth’s glamorous younger sister, was known for her fashion style and love of jewellery.
It seems only fitting then that the 22-year-old daughter of Margaret’s son, David Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, and his ex-wife Serena, has become a jewellery designer.
Margarita, who was a bridesmaid at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011, and who spends her summers in Balmoral and Christmases at Sandringham, has been showing her latest collection, Matita, in London’s Chelsea.
Margarita studied jewellery design, stonesetting and wax carving in Paris and, in an interview, she has disclosed that the new designs are inspired by Africa. With spiked ebony and rock crystal necklaces, turquoise pebbles and recycled beads, the bold pieces are half a century away from her grandmother’s…
