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...three women that make up the royal family. I am the mother of two, and believe there were strong arguments on both sides of the Margaret-Townsend question, but I'd hate to think that a modern villain-disguised as a Prince Charming-was wielding unseemly power in Buckingham Palace...
...throne, Edward made himself, in British eyes, something less than a man without a head. The people of Britain let him go, anointed his conscientious younger brother George (Margaret's father) in his place and tried to forget him. A new royal family was established in Buckingham Palace, and the most beguiling member of it was an impish little Princess known as Margaret Rose. For the moment at least, all had become right again with the world, in Britain anyway. But the blow that Edward dealt the institution of the Crown was not forgotten...
...birth, and Townsend's name was sent him. Wearing his best uniform, the young airman went to see the King. King George liked him from the first, and after 30 minutes of chat, he was taken on. As the King and the airman left the royal study in Buckingham Palace, they met a slightly gawky girl of 13 in the corridor. "This is my daughter Margaret," said the King...
...February 1952 King George died. Stricken deeply by the first real blow ever dealt in her sheltered life, Princess Margaret turned for comfort to the church and to Peter Townsend, himself a deeply religious man. Meanwhile, the circumstances that put Elizabeth into Buckingham Palace and sent her mother and sister to the comparative obscurity of Clarence House made Peter Townsend more indispensable than ever. In the midst of a domestic crisis of his own, he took complete charge of readying the new residence, managed the Queen Mother's purse strings and even supervised the mixing of the colors...
...mere younger Princess at Clarence House instead of the darling of Buckingham Palace, Margaret has considerably more freedom than she once did. But at Clarence House, by her own design, Margaret's life is almost as strictly circumscribed by protocol as it was at the palace. Like Peter Townsend, she is a stickler for perfection, and whatever she does, she wants to do well, even to being a Princess. When Princess Margaret goes to a nightclub, it is never on an informal twosome with a single escort. The party is carefully planned in advance to include half a dozen...