Town & Country reports that David Linley is a bespoke furniture designer, opening a shop in Dorking before his own company, David Linley Furniture Ltd. Now known simply as Linley, because it's just that chic, the Viscount has designed for the likes of Elton John and Valentino. "I inherited my love of design from my father ... who was always fascinated by pushing the boundaries of an object — working out how to make it touch the ground in two places rather than three," he told The Telegraph. "I was pretty bad at making things as a child but he was an excellent teacher." However, it's important to note Princess Margaret's eldest child is not a designer. Linley told Vanity Fair firmly, "I'm a maker, not a designer."
His late mother was incredibly supportive of Linley's design career, with the royal revealing he once came downstairs in his shop to find her "sitting on the floor, screwing a screw into the back of a mirror." He noted, "She was greatly enthusiastic." Linley inherited the title of 2nd Earl of Snowdon upon his father's death, in 2017, per Town & Country. According to Harper's Bazaar, the furniture designer — sorry, maker — married Serena Stanhope in 1993, at St. Margaret's Church in Westminster. The couple announced their separation in 2020, as Tatler reported at the time. The exes share two children, Charles Armstrong-Jones, also Viscount Linley, born in 1999, and Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones, who followed in 2002.
