R. H. Naylor

Who was R. H. Naylor?

Richard Harold Naylor, better known as R. H. Naylor, was the first sun sign astrologer.

Newspaper astrology columns began in August 1930 in the Sunday Express, just after the birth of Princess Margaret. Editor John Gordon wanted a story on her birth but with a new angle, so Cheiro was asked to do her horoscope. Cheiro was unavailable, so the job went to R H Naylor, one of his assistants. The result was "What the stars foretell for the new princess". It gave her birth chart and described what certain individual factors indicated, namely her Leo sun sign, and her angular Uranus, Saturn and Venus, but diplomatically not her close Mercury–Mars square nor her close Venus–Jupiter–Uranus T-square, ending with a general forecast. More importantly, under the general heading "And a few hints on the happenings of this week", an equal amount of space was devoted to mundane forecasts, and forecasts for each birthday in the coming week. He created the horoscope for her, not only outlining in his article a character now recognizably that of the Princess, but predicting that 'events of tremendous importance to the Royal Family and the nation will come about near her seventh year'..