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So when photographer Lord Snowdon – then husband of Princess Margaret – was the guest of honour at a new jewellery shop in London’s Jermyn Street that October, it became an instant magnet for the beau monde. Its owner Andrew Grima, part of the Snowdon set, had just won the Duke of Edinburgh’s Prize for Elegant Design – the first and only jewellery to ever win it – and opened his eponymous shop. Designed by his architect brothers, Godfrey and George, and described as ‘a jewel of modern architecture’, it stood out among the street’s traditional stores with its steel latticework and slate exterior.