Princess Margaret And Peter Townsend: The Truth Behind Their Romance In ‘The Crown’

Millions of people have been transfixed over Netflix’s royal drama The Crown, but is the romance between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend totally faithful to real life and historically accurate?

Captain Peter Townsend was a brilliant war hero who proposed to Princess Margaret in 1953, but in The Crown, we see England’s Prime Minister Anthony Eden voicing the cabinet’s displeasure at the idea of a union between Princess Margaret and Peter. He even went so far as to tell Margaret that she would face a very real exile for five years if she even ventured to continue her dalliance with Townsend, especially in the form of a marriage. We shudder as we see the Queen tell Margaret that not only will she be sent away in exile, but she will no longer even be a member of the family.

However, the BBC has taken an in-depth look into this matter and found that while partially true, much of it was meant for show and that Princess Margaret wouldn’t have really had to live in fear of exile, nor the severing of ties between her and the royal family.

To prove this, the BBC looked at papers in the National Archives that illuminate this matter greatly. Prime Minister Anthony Eden and the Queen actually concocted a plan in 1955 which would, in reality, allow Princess Margaret to keep living in England while carrying out her public duties. This was under the provision that the public approved of her marriage, which it seemed highly likely that it would.

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Princess Margaret And Peter Townsend: The Truth Behind Their Romance In ‘The Crown’ is an article from: The Inquisitr News