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 ...

Princess Margaret died "peacefully in her sleep" at ... she had a famous love affair with Royal Air Force Group Capt. Peter Townsend, a doomed romance that gripped the nation.

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 ...

Townsend. Warwick, who wrote Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts, once asked the late princess if it had been true that they had got together in reaction to that affair and she retorted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Group Captain Peter Townsend. Not only was marrying a divorcee Not A Thing for royals – the Royal Marriages Act 1772 required the monarch’s permission to do it – but Princess Margaret had ...

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 ...