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...that meant a happy or sad ending to the royal romance of the pretty Princess and the dashing airman. But beneath the soapsuds of sentiment, a serious crisis was forming. The plans of Princess Margaret, third in line for the throne of the British realm, and Group Captain Peter Townsend, R.A.F., a once-married commoner, have grown into the topmost concern of church and state. Britons sensed that a decision was in the making, but few knew all that was going on to shape it. The question concerned not only Princess Margaret's happiness but the British balance...
Seldom in the history of journalism has so much been written by so many who knew so little. For more than two years, the press of much of the English-speaking world has spun out the tale of British Princess Margaret's romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend in cotton-candy clouds of circumstance, tidbit, speculation, opinion and surmise. Last week Margaret and Captain Townsend converged on London from opposite directions, and the tale spun dizzily on. To all intents and purposes, the climactic chapter of the world's most romantic cliff-hanger was about...
Tense Hands & Phone Call. Airman Townsend, slim, wavy-haired fighter-pilot hero of the Battle of Britain, was the first to get to London. Looking fit and 41, he arrived with his Nile green Renault sedan on a Bristol cargo plane at Lydd airport, packed his gear and his gentleman-jockey's tack into the back seat, and drove straight to the Lowndes Square home of Marquess Abergavenny, a close friend of the royal family. That same evening the press learned that Princess Margaret was due in from Scotland next morning. A battery of reporters stood at Euston Station...
That afternoon Peter Townsend went shopping with Mrs. John Wills, the Princess' first cousin, best friend, and the mother of Margaret's first goddaughter. Back at Lowndes Square, Peter got a phone call from Clarence House. An hour later he arrived at the mansion where Margaret and her mother live, and was instantly admitted-to meet Margaret for the first time since the summer of 1954, when he paid her a secret visit under the incognito, "Mr. Carter." Two hours later Townsend emerged, smiling but tactfully closemouthed. "Are you happy?" asked one reporter. "Yes." answered the captain...
...Tommy Townsend, John Deknatel, and Bill Owens will be probable skippers in Sunday's race. George Cronin will sail in a 24-foot sloop at New London...