Princess Margaret’s Fashion Through the Decades

Princess Margaret, seated and wearing a multi-colored dress and holding a straw hat.

The Princess sits for a royal portrait in 1944, wearing a formal evening dress with sequined butterflies around the shoulder, and holding two pink roses.

Princess Margaret Rose at Buckingham Palace on her 17th birthday, August 20, 1947.

Princess Margaret, with the Lord Mayor of Bristol, is greeted by the Cadet Guard of Honor on March 28, 1949 in Bristol.

Princess Margaret, wearing a lace dress and long gloves, receives a flower bouquet in 1949.

Princess Margaret performed the ceremony of the re-opening of the Women’s Resident Training college for elementary school teachers at Avery Hill, Etham in 1949.

The Princess poses in an ornate pink gown in 1949.

Princess Margaret watches a Royal Air Force display at Farnborough in 1950, wearing more casual attire.

Princess Margaret attends the premiere of the film Captain Horatio Hornblower at the Warner Theatre Leicester Square on April 12, 1951.

Princess Margaret speaks at a St. John’s Ambulance Brigade Rally in 1953.

Princess Margaret following a performance of Guys and Dolls.

Princess Margaret wearing a bright yellow dress and matching hat during her 1955 tour of the Caribbean.

Princess Margaret sports a feathered blue hat, pearls, and patterned dress during her royal tour of East Africa in 1956.

Princess Margaret dances with Jackie Toaduff at a 1958 ball hosted by the English Folk Dance and Song Society. The Princess wore a balloon-skirted dress decorated with bows.

Princess Margaret and her new husband Antony Armstrong-Jones leave Westminister Abbey after their wedding on May 6, 1960.

Princess Margaret arrives at the Strowger Works in Liverpool, wearing a purple coat, green dress, and matching hat.

Princess Margaret wears a fur wrap, a ruffled pink dress, and dramatic jewelry to the premiere the movie The Alamo at the Astoria in London on October 27, 1960.

The Princess attends a Royal Command Film Performance in 1961, sporting a fur wrap, a blue gown, and plenty of jewels.

Princess Margaret attends a wedding at Westminster Abbey in 1962

Princess Margaret waves to the crowd during a visit to Jamaica. Here, she’s attending a ceremony marking the independence of the former British colonies on August 8, 1962 in Jamaica.

Princess Margaret wearing the Poltimore Tiara (and a perfectly coordinated hairdo) drives into Buckingham Palace for a state banquet 1962.

Princess Margaret wears an extravagant hat in 1963.

Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon arrive at the Hilton Hotel in London. The Princess is wearing a cerise and gold gown and a brown mink stole.

Princess Margaret and Sir Roger Makins at the opening of new halls of residence at Imperial College in 1963.

Princess Margaret at a gala preview for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. The event was in support of The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Princess Margaret wearing an eighteenth Century ballgown and a wig to the Georgian Ball, a charity event in aid of the Friends of St. John’s at the Mansion House in London, on July 1, 1964.