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 ...

An extraordinary secret about Princess ... two became lovers. Margaret was then only 19. If it is true, the date is significant. It is several years before Group Captain Townsend obtained a ...

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 ...

Caught between the old social order and the sudden freedoms of a more democratic age, Princess Margaret ... a small gesture by Margaret brushing some fluff off Townsend’s jacket led to headlines ...