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{{shortShort description|British jewelry designer and relative of the royal family (born 2002)}}
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| birth_name = Margarita Elizabeth Rose Alleyne Armstrong-Jones
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2002|05|14|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Portland Hospital]], London,<br> United KingdomEngland
| education = {{ubl|[[Garden House School]]<br>[[|St Mary's School Ascot]]<br/>|[[Tudor Hall School, Banbury]]<br/>|[[Oxford Brookes University]]<br/>|Haute École de Joaillerie}}
| father = [[David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon]]
| mother = [[Serena Armstrong-Jones, Countess of Snowdon|Serena Stanhope]]
| family = [[Earl of Snowdon|Armstrong-Jones]] (paternal)<br/>[[Earl of Harrington|Stanhope]] (maternal)
}}
 
'''Lady Margarita Elizabeth Rose Alleyne Armstrong-Jones''' (born 14 May 2002) is a relative of the [[British royal family]]. She is the granddaughter of [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon|Princess Margaret]] and the grandniece of [[Queen Elizabeth II]]. As of 20232025, she is 27th28th in the [[Successionline of succession to the British throne|line of succession]].
She was a [[bridesmaid]] at the [[wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton]] in 2011 and accompanies members of the royal family to public events.
Lady Margarita is a jewellery designer and the creator of the bespoke jewellery label Matita.
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== Early life and family ==
Lady Margarita was born The Honourable Margarita Armstrong-Jones on 14 May 2002 at [[Portland Hospital]] in London.<ref name= hello>{{cite web | url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/20230208163846/princess-margaret-lookalike-granddaughter-margarita-armstrong-jones/ | title=Who is Princess Margaret's lookalike granddaughter, Margarita Armstrong-Jones? | date=8 February 2023 }}</ref> She is the daughter of [[David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon]], who was styled as Viscount Linley at the time of her birth, and The Honourable [[Serena Armstrong-Jones, Countess of Snowdon|Serena Stanhope]].<ref name= people/> On her father's side, she is the granddaughter of [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon]] and [[Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon]] and a great-granddaughter of [[King George VI]].<ref name= tatler3>{{cite web | url=https://www.tatler.com/article/lady-margarita-armstrong-jones-princess-margaret-lookalike | title=Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones is the spitting image of her grandmother, Princess Margaret, at Tatler's Little Black Book party | date=4 November 2022 }}</ref><ref name= people>{{cite web | url=https://people.com/royals/princess-margaret-granddaughter-lady-margarita-armstrong-jones-shared-connection/ | title=Princess Margaret's Granddaughter Lady Margarita Shares the Passion She Inherited from the Glam Royal }}</ref> On her mother's side, she is the granddaughter of [[Charles Stanhope, 12th Earl of Harrington]] and a descendant of [[Charles II of England|Charles II]].<ref>Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1796.</ref><ref name= tatler4/> She was baptized Margarita Elizabeth Rose Alleyne, and was named after her grandmother and great-grandmother, [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]].<ref name= hello/>
 
She grew up at her family's three homes: a flat in [[Chelsea, London]], a cottage on the grounds of the [[Daylesford House|Daylesford Estate]] in [[Gloucestershire]], and the [[Château d'Autet]] in France.<ref>{{cite news |last=Purnell |first=Sonia |title=My passion for Provence |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/4815256/My-passion-for-Provence.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110214171103/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/4815256/My-passion-for-Provence.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 February 2011 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=29 June 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Tyzack |first=Anna |title=My perfect weekend: David Linley |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/my-perfect-weekend/8913057/My-perfect-weekend-David-Linley.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/my-perfect-weekend/8913057/My-perfect-weekend-David-Linley.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=24 November 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> As a member of the [[British royal family]], she spends Christmases at [[Sandringham House]] and summers at [[Balmoral Castle]].<ref name= tatler/><ref name= people/>
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Lady Margarita was first educated at [[Garden House School]], a [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private school]] in the [[Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]] before attending [[St Mary's School Ascot]], a Catholic all-girls boarding school.<ref name= tatler/> She later transferred to [[Tudor Hall School, Banbury|Tudor Hall School]], an all-girls boarding school in [[Oxfordshire]], where she studied art history, jewellery design, and photography for her [[A-level]]s.<ref name= tatler/>
 
ThenIn 2020, she studied photography at [[Oxford Brookes University]], switching for her second year to event management after the university moved its courses online due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom]] in her first year.<ref name= tatler/><ref name= townandcountry>{{cite web | url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a41868034/margarita-armstrong-jones-princess-margaret-lookalike/ | title=Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones Channels Her Grandmother, Princess Margaret | date=4 November 2022 }}</ref> Lady Margarita took life drawing, pottery, and watercolour painting courses at a small art school in [[Oxford]].<ref name= tatler/>
 
In September 2022, Lady Margarita enrolled as a student at La Haute École de Joaillerie in Paris to study jewellery design, [[stonesetting]], and [[wax carving]].<ref name= tatler/>
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Along with other members of the extended royal family, she attended the [[Death and funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]] in 2021 and the [[Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II|state funeral of Elizabeth II]] in 2022.<ref name= tatler/><ref name= people/>
 
Lady Margarita attended the [[Coronation of Charles III and Camilla]] on 6 May 2023.<ref name="Robinson">{{cite news |last1=Robinson |first1=Matthew |title=King Charles’sCharles's Coronation guest list: a who’swho's who of everyone expected to attend |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2023/04/06/king-charles-coronation-guest-list-who-expected-attend-invited/ |access-date=11 April 2023 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=11 April 2023 |archive-date=10 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410142309/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2023/04/06/king-charles-coronation-guest-list-who-expected-attend-invited/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
Every year she does the "Christmas walk" with the royal family to [[St. Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham|St. Mary Magdalene Church]] and attends the Easter service at the private chapel of [[Windsor Castle]].
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In September 2022, Lady Margarita moved to Paris, renting a flat near the [[Bastille]] where she lives with her two best friends.<ref name= tatler/><ref name= people/> She is a prominent socialite, and attends various society events including Tatler's annual ''Little Black Book'' party.<ref name= tatler2/>
 
As of 20232025, she is twenty-seventh28th in the [[Succession to the British throne|line of succession to the British throne]] and the third-highest person in line, after her father and brother, to not be descended from Elizabeth II.<ref name= tatler/><ref name= tatler4>{{cite web | url=https://www.tatler.com/meet-lady-margarita-armstrong-jones-family | title=Meet Lady Margarita's family: A who's who of the Tatler cover star's clan – from Princess Margaret to Lady Sarah Chatto | date=23 March 2023 }}</ref>
 
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[[Category:WomenBritish women jewellers]]
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