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 ...

Group Captain Peter Townsend and the Princess had been forced to hide their feelings. With the world watching, at the Coronation of Margaret's sister, the couple seemed so much in love.

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 ...

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

The couple’s doomed love affair is featured on the hit ... “I married Tony five years after the end of Peter Townsend.” Princess Margaret died in 2002 after suffering a stroke.

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.

Princess Margaret ... she had a much-publicised romance with RAF pilot Peter Townsend in her early 20s. Their relationship ended after Townsend's divorce was finalised and the Queen ascended ...