Snowdon, as a young woman, by the prominent portrait
photographer Dorothy Wilding, who made a number of official photographs of the royal family. The inscription on the back indicates that it was apparently used in a publication.The daughter of King George IV and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and younger sister to Queen Elizabeth II, she began carrying out public engagements at a young age, accompanying her parents on their official visit to South Africa in 1947. She was married to Antony Armstrong-Jones, who became Lord Snowden, in 1960 and had two children. The marriage ended in 1978. As an adult, she actively participated in ceremonial functions as well as charitable activities and organizations, with a particular interest in social welfare and the arts, serving as patron or president of some 80 organizations.