Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Butler's proposal was adrenalin to the millions of Britons who are busily marrying off Princess Meg to the dashing, divorced R.A.F. ace, Group Captain Peter Townsend: the government, it seemed, was deliberately relieving the Princess of one great obstacle to her marrying a commoner. Butler made clear that the regency change has been in the wind for more than a year. The question of freeing Margaret to marry Townsend-a matter requiring the approval of the Queen, the government and the Church of England-had nothing to do with it. "Such a matter . . . has never come before...
...months to come. The latest word is that the Queen, the Queen Mother and Margaret herself have agreed to do nothing until the Queen and Philip return from a visit to Australia next May. The royal family apparently hopes that by then Margaret's ardor for Airman Townsend-now neatly isolated in an air attache's job in Brussels -will have cooled. Margaret apparently hopes that her steadfast devotion to Townsend will be so plain to everyone that a way will be found to bless the marriage...
...free of care as she returned home from Africa with her mother last week. But in their papers and over their teacups, her sister's subjects, with rising heat, were arguing the pros & cons of a possible marriage between her and 38-year-old R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend (TIME, July 20), now safely banished to an office in the British embassy at Brussels. There was still no official or royal-family confirmation of the romance, and much tushing in the respectable press at the propriety of even discussing it. Unabashed, London's tabloid Daily Mirror charged boldly...
Unnoticeable. It was understandable that the gossips had overlooked slim, personable Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, D.S.O., D.F.C., even though his picture had been appearing in the papers alongside Margaret for years. The gossip columnists who had long sought to probe the secrets of the princess' heart simply forgot the Holmesian precept that the most easily overlooked clue is often the most obvious one. As a royal equerry and deputy master of King George VI's household (appointed in 1944 when Margaret was only 14), he had the constant duty of accompanying the royal family...
Meanwhile, to gain time to test the course of true love and to test the public's response, Group Captain Townsend was posted off to an embassy sinecure in Brussels. On tour in Southern Rhodesia with her mother, Princess Margaret complained of a cold, was ordered to bed by her doctor-a heart specialist...