There aren’t many royals you’d discover biking throughout London. However then once more, Woman Margarita Armstrong-Jones isn’t your common member of the royal household.
As she arrives on her bicycle for our unique photoshoot at a fantastic mews home in London’s Notting Hill, her modern classic dirndl instantly evokes the spirit of her grandmother, Princess Margaret, after whom she was named.
Margarita – who was a bridesmaid on the age of eight for Prince William and Princess Kate – tells us she is influenced by her elegant grandmother and but stays very a lot her personal individual.
“I feel she was a world affect of favor and enjoyable,” says the twenty eighth within the line to the throne, the daughter of Margaret’s son David Armstrong-Jones, now 2nd Earl of Snowdon, and the Hon. Serena Stanhope – whose father is the twelfth Earl of Harrington.
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“I feel her model is cherished by everybody,” she provides. “I suppose it does play into me, however not solely. I feel everybody’s completely different, and I do look as much as her, however I do what comes naturally to me.”
An up-and-coming jewelry designer with a model named Matita, 22-year-old Margarita is as fascinating as her vivacious grandmother, who died simply three months earlier than she was born.
Christened Margarita Elizabeth Rose Alleyne, she has a ardour for journey, adores eclectic vogue and design, and likes to supply jewels and materials from unique locations.
And when she appears for the primary time at a number of pictures of Princess Margaret on the Caribbean island of Mustique, the place she owned a house, she exclaims: “I just like the peachy gown, that’s fairly cool,” on seeing one in all her grandmother’s fairly outfits.
The artistic gene definitely runs in Margarita’s household: her father – previously Viscount Linley and recognized professionally as David Linley – is a furnishings maker and founding father of the Linley interiors model, whereas her grandfather Antony Armstrong-Jones, the first Earl of Snowdon, was a famend British portrait photographer.
Being round such expertise from a younger age was a “large assist”, says Margarita, who says she was “at all times inspired to have an interest and to ask questions”.
“That’s what Dad was fairly adamant about. He’d at all times say: ‘Be curious and be completely different’, which I carried with me.”
On inheriting her photographer grandfather’s artistic eye, she muses: “Effectively, it will need to have come from someplace.
“He was an exceptional photographer – weirdly, I’ve simply purchased one in all his books about attention-grabbing locations in London architecturally, so there’s some ongoing overlap. The folks that he photographed have been simply unimaginable.”
The digicam loves Margarita, too. She’s a pure on the shoot, posing in a sequence of designer appears, of which a unusual Louis Vuitton minidress is her favorite.
© Hey!Impressed by journey
Journey has been part of her life since she was a baby and evokes her jewelry design – her household personal a farmhouse known as Château d’Autet in Provence. “We have been very fortunate,” she smiles.
She adores Mexico: “Significantly cool, simply energetic and artistry and all kinds of issues,” and he or she’s stayed with tribes in Indonesia.
© Hey!Her ardour for globetrotting is entwined in her designs. “I’ve a number of African affect, impressed by travelling and discovering all these items and the a part of the world that they’re from. All of it tells a narrative,” she says, explaining that she steers away from the jewelry trade norms to create a brand new model.
“I’m impressed by the stones, how they make you’re feeling, what they appear like.”
Margarita’s jewelry line contains a beautiful assortment of items, primarily vibrant necklaces constituted of pure supplies in vibrant shades.
© good day!“I might say they’re daring assertion items for certain,” she says of her designs. “Maybe the larger items aren’t an on a regular basis put on, relying on the individual, however primarily a celebration assertion, a wow issue.”
Would possibly her royal grandmother, recognized for her love of daring colors, have favored her jewelry? “Possibly not the tooth!” she laughs, referring to a silver necklace strung with fang-like adornments.
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Photographer: Christopher Fenner
Styling: Hannah Beck
Hair + MUA: Irina Cajvaneanu
