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 ...

He was Margaret's constant companion and undoubtedly helped the Princess through her ... be known that I have decided not to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend. Mindful that Christian marriage ...

With Princess Margaret's death ... moment in the Princess's life. Rosemary Townsend married twice more after the break-up of her marriage to Peter, who died in 1995. These days she is the widow ...

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 ...

In June 1953 speculation was rife that Princess Margaret, then third in line to the throne, wished to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend, former equerry and deputy master of the household to her ...

Margaret married photographer Antony ... Sounding Like Princess Margaret Brokenhearted Princess Margaret Canceled Her Wedding to Captain Peter Townsend 65 Years Ago Today How a Smiths Song Sums ...

“I married Tony five years after the end of Peter Townsend.” Princess Margaret died in 2002 after suffering a stroke. Lord Snowdon was an “innovative, progressive” photographer, designer ...

But Margaret didn’t tie the knot with Peter Townsend. When she eventually ... But, more importantly for the public, the Princess had married a man of the people. She had married for love.

3) Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend’s love story One ... relationship with her father’s assistant, Peter Townsend. Margaret wanted to marry Peter but needed her sister’s approval as ...