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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Chelsea Ritschel

The bizarre story behind Princess Margaret and the creation of modern horoscopes

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The study of astrology and the information celestial events and movements can allegedly foretell about our daily lives has been around long before millennials became interested in the alignment of the stars at the moments of their births and what it means to be a Scorpio.

However, modern horoscopes aren’t as ancient a practice as you may have thought, as they actually found their way into newspapers, and subsequently popular culture, around the 1930s, with the birth of Queen Elizabeth II’s younger sister, Princess Margaret.

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