![]() ![]() In Time and Chance, Peter Townsend tells his side of the story in intensely personal terms, and places the episode within the whole context of his full and varied life, a story which includes great heroism in World War II as well as his part in one of the most publicised love stories of the twentieth century. The romance between Princess Margaret and Group Captain Peter Townsend in the 1950s rocked the British Establishment, pulled at the heartstrings of a nation and brought sorrow to two intensely human individuals. ![]() ![]() ![]() atomic bombing of Nagasaki),25 and Time and Chance (an autobiography). Then she simply said: "That is exactly how I feel, too." It was, to us both, an immensely gladdening disclosure, but one which sorely troubled us.' Peter Townsend married Rosemary Pawle in 1941 and the couple divorced in 1952. She listened, without uttering a word, as I told her, very quietly, of my feelings. It was then that we made the mutual discovery of how much we meant to one another. ' One afternoon, at Windsor Castle, when everyone had gone to London for some ceremony, we talked, in the red drawing-room, for hours - about ourselves. ' One of the saddest love stories of modern times' The Scotsman THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF PETER TOWNSEND, THE MAN CONSIDERED TO BE THE GREAT LOVE OF PRINCESS MARGARET'S LIFE, EQUERRY TO KING GEORGE VI AND HERO OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN. ![]()
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