"A bad blunder has been made by the Queen's advisers, and it is hard to see how they will extricate themselves from the booby trap." The London Evening Standard spoke like a firm but indulgent nanny; half a dozen other London papers chimed in with dismay, outrage, chagrin. Cause of the clamor—and envy: the news that Antony Armstrong-Jones is going to work for the opposition.
Armstrong-Jones, besides being Princess Margaret's husband, is also the Earl of Snowdon and until his career ended in marriage, he was a competent freelance photographer. Weighing all these credentials, Roy Thomson, Canadian-born publisher of 93 papers, had...
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