Was there more to Princess Margaret’s forbidden lover Peter Townsend than meets the eye? Inside the life of the war hero who was 15 years older than her – and later claimed ‘the sex-urge is a rather unfair device employed by god’
Despite coming from little wealth and low birth, Group Captain Peter Townsend won the heart of a princess. The tall, handsome and fearless RAF war hero has been remembered throughout history as the man who almost tempted Princess Margaret to give up her gilded life in the Royal Family to marry him. But she declined