Word: townsend
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...December of 1952, Townsend resolved his personal problems by divorcing Rosemary for adultery,** but even though he was in constant attendance on Margaret and her mother, the divorce caused scarcely a ripple of speculation or gossip. Peter Townsend was too much a fixture in the royal family; the press of Britain, vainly trying to marry the Princess off to a whole parade of eligible earls and marquesses, was too busy to notice. Too busy, that is, until the coronation, when a sharp-eyed reporter in an Abbey anteroom caught Margaret affectionately brushing off the lapels of Airman Townsend...
...years since Peter Townsend had first gone to serve his King, the coltish teen-ager in the corridor had grown into a woman fully conscious of her position and proud of its prerogatives. Warmly magnetic when she wants to be, she can stiffen into icy frigidity at any affront to the protocol she feels is her due. Even her best friends call her "Ma'am," and a brash acquaintance who once inquired solicitously after the health "of your father," was instantly frozen with the reply, "I presume you mean His Majesty...
...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...
...setting her heart on Peter Townsend, Princess Margaret has given no indication that she wants to give up the privileges, duties or emoluments of the royal life. What has given her pause over the past weeks and kept a nation and a world on tenterhooks awaiting her decision is the Princess' sudden, clear awareness of the fact that she cannot have her royal cake...
...peoples of her sister's Commonwealth, it went on, "would see her step down from her high place with the deepest regret, for she has adorned it, and is everywhere honored and loved." But there was no question in the Times's mind that marriage to Townsend would require the Princess to "step down...