But it was a love that would be denied. She was a Princess who could not renounce her birthright and he was a divorcee in an age when divorce was a mark of shame. They first met when Margaret was ...

Margaret’s doomed love for Group Captain Peter Townsend, her father’s former equerry, was a key plotline in the first season of Netflix’s The Crown. The princess then turned her attention to ...

Princess Margaret, the Countess of Snowdon, was a member of the English royal family. She was the daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II.