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 ...

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 ...

However, the most famous former resident has to be the late Princess Margaret's ex-lover, Group Captain Peter Townsend, whose affair with the Queen's sister caused a national scandal. The cottage ...

3) Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend’s love story One of the early scandals in the lives of the new generation of the royals was Margaret’s relationship with her father’s assistant ...

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 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.