Welsh aristocrat and photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, later the 1st Earl of Snowden, was BOTD in 1930. Born in London to an upper-middle-class family, his parents divorced when he was a child, and he was shipped off to boarding school, followed by Eton College. He contracted polio in his teens, requiring a lengthy convalescence and leaving him with a permanent limp. After studying at Cambridge University, he apprenticed with the society photographer Baron Nahum. His earliest commissions were theatrical portraits, often recommended by his uncle the stage designer Oliver Messel. His work was featured regularly in Tatler and Queen magazines, and he was the official photographer for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh’s 1957 tour of Canada. By the 1970s, he was one of Britain’s most respected photographers, published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, the Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph. Best known for his celebrity portraits, he photographed many of the leading cultural and political figures of the post-war period, including Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth Taylor, David Bowie, Anthony Blunt, British prime minister Harold Macmillan, David Hockney, Princess Grace of Monaco, Rupert Everett, Diana the Princess of Wales, Barbara Cartland and Freddie Mercury. He also directed several documentary films and was a prominent campaigner to improve the lives of disabled people. Rampantly and unapologetically bisexual, his personal life was baroque and complicated. In 1960, he married the Queen’s sister Princess Margaret, and was elevated to the peerage, becoming the 1st Earl of Snowden. They had two children together, though the marriage was turbulent, strained by drug and alcohol use and repeated mutual infidelities. After their divorce in 1978, Armstrong-Jones married Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, with whom he had a daughter. They separated in 2000, after revelations that Armstrong-Jones had fathered a child with his mistress Melanie Cable-Alexander. Armstrong-Jones also had affairs with his friends Camilla and Jeremy Fry, designers Nicky Haslam and Tom Parr and a 20-year relationship with journalist Ann Hill. In 2004, it was revealed that he was also the biological father of Camilla’s daughter, conceived shortly before his marriage to Princess Margaret. He died in 2017, aged 86. He was played by Matthew Goode and Ben Daniels in TV series The Crown.