Her tender touch betrayed their secret, as Margaret attentively brushed fluff from the dashing officer's jacket. Until then, Group Captain Peter Townsend and the Princess had been forced to hide ...

Princess Margaret (left) and Peter Townsend (second right), seen here with Princess Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth at Ascot 1951, had known each other since she was a teenager Medals belonging to ...

In April 1953, a decorated former RAF officer named Peter Townsend caused a stir by proposing to Princess Margaret, who was 15 years his junior. Townsend was also a commoner and a divorcé—both ...

With Princess Margaret's death, only this secretive woman knows the full story of the love, the despair and the bitterness that tore apart her marriage to Group Captain Peter Townsend, and which ...

Group Captain Peter Townsend. Not only was marrying a divorcee Not A Thing for royals – the Royal Marriages Act 1772 required the monarch’s permission to do it – but Princess Margaret had ...

Princess Margaret was well known for her party-loving reputation and independent spirit. As a young woman she developed a relationship with royal equerry Captain Peter Townsend but faced issues ...

Princess Margaret, the Queen's only sibling ... Margaret’s decision not to marry Peter Townsend also featured heavily, with the Queen and her government shown opposing her desire to marry ...

Princess Margaret was born to money ... In the 1950’s she famously fell in love with Peter Townsend, a married RAF officer. She wanted to marry him after his divorce, but the Archbishop of ...