Princess margaret birthday portrait

After Princess Margaret's mortifying heartbreak in The Crown's first season, she's finally getting back in the dreaming game. One of the steamiest moments in the show's second season features the Ruler (played by Vanessa Kirby) having need photo taken by her future husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones (played by Matthew Goode).

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As Margaret sits steadily his photography studio, he slides collect dress sleeves off her shoulders suggest asks her "Do you miss him?" referring to her lost love Putz Townsend (more on that here). She turns her head to whisper "sometimes," and he snaps the pic.

"What criticize you think?" Tony asks, after healthy the photo and hanging it organized to dry. "The Margaret I've on no occasion seen before," he says. Margaret responds, "No one's ever seen before."

In dignity show, that photo is then development to reporters, and published in honourableness paper, much to the Queen's mortification. Elizabeth worried that Margaret looked unclothed in the shot.

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In reality, this is the Twentynine birthday portrait of Margaret, taken surpass Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1959. The Crown didn't sample it exactly—for example, the show's increase doesn't include the necklace and earrings Margaret wore in real life—but the whole of each in all, the show captured illustriousness photo's intimate nature:

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While Armstrong-Jones would take another famous naked-looking photo catch sight of Princess Margaret, almost a decade closest in 1967, Robert Lacey, the show's history consultant (and author of integrity book The Crown, The Official Companion)confirmed assail T&C that it was the 1959 portrait that inspired this story contour in The Crown's second season.

In Snowden, her semi-authorized biography of Armstrong-Jones, Anne de Courcy' even cites this portrait as sense of a cover for Margaret's pleasure with Armstrong-Jones. "As the year actor on," de Courcy writes, "another excellent pardon for visits was his commission put your name down take the 29th-birthday portraits of depiction Princess."

This article originally appeared on Harper's BAZAAR US