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...minute Princess Margaret got back from her tour, she made a beeline for one of the "green line" phones (which are equipped with "scramblers" to prevent interception) and called Group Captain Peter Townsend R.A.F. at the British embassy in Brussels. The romance still bloomed; she still wanted to marry...
...Exile. Last week there was a clear sign that the Queen, Primate and Premier had bowed to the inevitable and admitted defeat. For 19 months, 40-year-old Captain Townsend, fighter-pilot hero of the Battle of Britain, had been quietly doing his duties as air attache in Brussels, refusing social engagements in favor of racing horses as a gentleman jockey, and scrupulously denying himself to newsmen. But now, with the air of a man suddenly released from an invisible leash, Airman Townsend began giving interviews, dropping pointed hints and adopting the manner of a man who could say much...
...make sure that nobody missed his message Townsend took to hailing newsmen from his Renault Frégate on his way to the stables for his morning ride. "I say, chaps, are you trying to get hold of me?" One reporter finally suggested he could stop all this simply by issuing a denial of the romance rumor. Said Townsend, affable and imperturbable: "I know...
...that the Princess' visit would strengthen the West Indian loyalty to the crown. The royal family undoubtedly hoped that the trip might have some of the same effect, so to speak, on Margaret; London society insists that she is still deeply in love with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, a war hero but a divorcé (TIME, July 20, 1953). If she decides to marry Townsend (which she will be eligible to do without the sovereign's permission after her 25th birthday in August), Margaret will have to give up her rights of succession...
...including My Best Girl and Wife for Sale). In her 78 novels she has written, by her estimate, about 9,000,000 words at the rate of about $1 a word. At 74, America's most expert fashioner of the wholesome love story is slowing down: Miss Harriet Townsend is her first novel in two years. The scene is old California, but it is still that familiar woman's world which is largely devoted to men. Two beauties, one Spanish, one Irish, become friends, and all goes well until a man comes between them. He is an Oxford...