Time and chance by peter townsend7/8/2023 Princess Margaret’s story is no doubt a tragic one in its own way, but her romance with Townsend ended generally amicably. Season 5 depicts the star-crossed lovers meeting up again in later life, but how accurate is Peter Townsend and Princess Margaret’s reunion in The Crown? Due to Townsend’s status as a divorcee, Margaret would have to renounce her right of succession, and so they called off their engagement, and Townsend left the UK to start a new life in TK. By the time she was 22, they’d begun a secret affair following the passing of Margaret’s father, King George VI, and Townsend’s divorce from his first wife. Having first met in 1944 when he was appointed as the new equerry at Buckingham Palace, a then 14-year-old Margaret fell for the handsome captain who was 15 years her senior. Longtime viewers of Netflix’s celebrated series The Crown will be well aware of the doomed romance between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend.
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