Photos of lord snowdons children and families

Although he would come to be best known as a member of the British royal family, Lord Snowdon was first, foremost and to the end, a photographer.

A selection of his prints and other personal possessions are offered in Snowdon: A Life in Art and Objects

Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, in 1958. Photo: Tom Blau / Camera Press

On leaving preparatory school in the summer of 1943, Antony Armstrong-Jones received a far-from-complimentary report.

His headmaster wrote that the 13-year-old ‘may be good at something, but it’s nothing we teach here’.

That something would turn out to be photography, and Armstrong-Jones would turn out to be very good indeed. This raffish figure with a studio in Pimlico and a fondness for motorbikes had developed quite a name for himself by the late 1950s.

He was even mooted for the role of official photographer on the Duke of Edinburgh’s