MARGARET AND TONY TO PART? wondered the London Sun in banner headlines. Scarcely 24 hours after Harold Wilson's sudden resignation announcement, Britain's front pages were taken over by a zinging royal marital drama. At week's end a pair of terse announcements confirmed the breakup of the long-troubled 16-year marriage of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon. A clipped bulletin from Kensington Palace, the Snowdons' London residence, stated that the two "have mutually agreed to live apart. The princess will carry on her public duties unaccompanied by Lord Snowdon. There are no plans...
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