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...hours after suffering her third stroke in four years, Margaret's place in history was assured. She was the first Diana, a woman whose life was a constant struggle with the rules of royalty. Margaret was just 14 when she became infatuated with Royal Air Force Group Captain Peter Townsend. Then 29, Townsend was a hero of the Battle of Britain and an equerry to her father, King George VI. He was also a married man with two children. But a secret romance eventually developed between them. The world learned about it at her sister's coronation...
...Windsors may be constitutional monarchs, but where the family image was concerned, they could be tyrants second to none. The Queen's private secretary contrived to have Townsend shipped off to Brussels. When he returned to London two years later, Margaret was 25 and no longer required her sister's permission to marry. But she soon was informed by Parliament that marriage to Townsend would require that she surrender her royal income, renounce her claim to the throne and leave England for at least five years. Not long after that, she issued her famous statement that "mindful of the Church...
Perhaps the greatest public sympathy Margaret ever evoked was in response to her legendary lost romance, from which, it is said, she never really recovered. In 1953 she fell in love with Group Captain Peter Townsend, a much - decorated pilot in the Battle of Britain. He was 16 years her senior and - worse yet in the staid 1950s - divorced, and thus unacceptable to the political Establishment and the Church of England. Sad at her sister's unhappiness, Queen Elizabeth asked Margaret to wait a couple of years. She did, and could have married Townsend at the age of 25 without...
...course, to a certain extent, the show’s ability to make audience members move with the music and share in its infectious energy is built into the piece. After all, Tommy is principally the work of Pete Townsend, one of the greatest rock-and-roll musicians and songwriters of all time...
Princeton, however, capitalized on its two corners in the half. With 7:18 left in the game, junior back Emily Townsend scored on assists by Friebe, who inbounded the ball, and by sophomore Claire Miller, who stopped the inbound at the top of the circle to set up the shot...