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The dashing war hero who acted like a gentleman or the 30-year-old married rogue who took advantage of a 15-year-old girl? The tragic love story of Peter Townsend and Princess ...
But despite being madly in love with each other, Group Captain Peter Townsend and Princess ... with Townsend was principally Margaret's. On June 2, 1953, the affair became public thanks ...
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Princess Margaret and a love affair denied
Until then, Group Captain Peter Townsend and the Princess had been forced to hide their feelings. With the world watching, at the Coronation of ... informed of the love affair, he exclaimed ...
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Princess Margaret's Scandalous Engagement to Peter Townsend
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 ...
Cher Recalls ‘Fiasco’ Performance in Front of Princess Margaret in Her New Memoir: ‘I Was Mortified’
It was like a bad dream that we couldn’t get out of,” the entertainer wrote in ‘Cher: The Memoir,’ out Nov. 19 ...