On This Day In History . 30 October 1930 . Princess Margaret was baptised . . ◼ Princess Margaret was baptised in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on 30 October 1930 by Cosmo Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury. . ◼ Her godparents were: the Prince of Wales (later, Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor), her paternal uncle, for whom his brother the Prince George stood proxy); Princess Ingrid of Sweden (her paternal cousin, for whom another cousin Lady Patricia Ramsay stood proxy); the Princess Victoria (her paternal great-aunt); the Lady Rose Leveson-Gower (her maternal aunt); and the Hon David Bowes-Lyon (her maternal uncle). . ◼ Princess Margaret was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and the only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II. . . Portrait: Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother when Duchess of York; Princess Margaret, by Speaight Ltd bromide print, 1930, NPG x199600 . 📷 © National Portrait Gallery, London . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1930 #QueenElizabeth #QueenMother #PrincessMargaret #CountessofSnowdon #PrincessMargaretCountessofSnowdon #HerRoyalHighness #BritishMonarchy #RoyalFamily #HouseofWindsor #D30Oct #Royals #History #Royalty #Thebritishmonarchy #RoyalHistory #Instahistory #Countess #OnThisDay #BuckinghamPalace #London (at Buckingham Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4QpCBvnsID/?igshid=1nlioub8lj363
