Princess Margaret was born in August 1930, so she was only nineteen or twenty years old in 1950. She was twenty-nine old at the time of her marriage in May 1960.
--Previous Message-- : Surely it is also a matter of age. QEII was : 21 in 1947, when she married. By 1950, : Margaret was 24, and 25 in 1951. She did : not marry until 1960. : : Princess Alexandra of Kent, whose mother was : otherwise quite traditional about jewels, : wore the Duchess's smaller tiaras before she : married. :