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AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Again, a shot heard around the
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who had become even more religious
since the death of her father, was
that her marriage to a divorced man
could not be consecrated in her church
and would, therefore, be no marriage.
Undoubtedly, in order not to em
barrass her sister, who is the Temporal
Head of the Church of England, she
and her husband would be forced to
live in exile, much like her uncle,
the Duke of Windsor, and the woman
for whom he gave up his throne. And
the one fact which' London journalists
were sure about was that Margaret
would hate to stop being a Princess.
In spite of her night-clubbing and
pink champagne, her upbringing had
given her no training for living as an
ordinary human being.
During the frantic days when the
London papers cried "Maggie, make
up your mind!" Townsend was finally
cornered by one veteran reporter
who told him, "Be a good chap, you
don't know what a state my editor
is in about this." And Townsend
replied, "You don't know what a state
I'm in about it!"
Finally Maggie made her mind up.
She said no, and Peter Townsend went
back to Brussels. Her devoted subjects
relaxed and hoped that, when she got
over her disappointment, she would
marry one of the 14 eligible princes
whom the newspapers cheerfully
listed for her, as a hint. But as time
went on, the Princess gave no indica
tion that she' was trying to find a
successor for Peter. She saw him at
least twice in 1956, once in July at
the country home of a mutual friend,
three months later at luncheon, re
portedly for only the two of them,
at Clarence House. Then he resigned
from the Air Force and set out to
drive around the world in a jeep.
The London Daily Mail paid him
approximately $15,000 for a series of
rather dull articles about his travels.
People more or less forgot him.
Margaret, staying at home and skip
ping public engagements, was called
by one sassy columnist the "Part
time, Stay-at-Home Princess." The
only man she was seen with regularly
was her old platonic steady, Billy
Wallace, whom even the most roman
tic had just about written off as
husband material.
f n march 25, this year, there were a
few listless lines in London
newspapers announcing that
Peter Townsend had finished his trip
and had returned to Brussels. Two
days later, Margaret was back in the
q headlines, as a result of a tea party
for three in the Queen Mother's
chintz-draped drawing rooms at Clar
ence House. Peter had come to
London and telephoned, like any old
friend. And like an old friend, he had
been asked to tea. Perhaps none of
the three people who drank that tea
had any idea that they were making
headlines. But the word spread fast
and, while curious crowds gathered
outside, so did the newspapermen.
Even the stately London Times, which
deprecates printing any news about
the private lives of the royal family,
had three cameramen there.
Commander Colville (whom a
newspaper friend of mine reports as
"never learning") told the press
blandly, "The Queen knew all about
it before she went to Holland (she
was away on a state visit). You would
be wrong to picture this in the frame
work of a great romance." But re
porters managed to find out that the
Queen had known nothing of the tea
party in advance. When presented
with this information, Colville said,
"No comment."
There was no question in anybody's
mind, however, that the Queen was
angry. When she got back from Hol
land, she went straight to Windsor
Castle and summoned Margaret back
on Sunday morning from an Army
Ball in Germany, where the Princess
had danced until 4: 30 a.m. That after
noon and the next morning, the Queen
had two meetings with her sister, with
Philip reportedly present. Afterward,
the two sisters were seen riding
together, whether really reconciled or
just putting a good English royal face
on the matter, nobody knows.
A good friend of mine in London, a
newspaperman who follows Margaret
as closely as she allows herself to be
trailed, wrote me his impression of
the situation: "Townsend is an ambi
tious, intelligent man who loved his
job with the royal family. There is no
doubt that Margaret fell for him,
heavily, or that he was fond of her,
although probably not quite as 'madly'
in love. He and the Queen Mother
were devoted to each other and I'm
told she still misses him a great deal.
"We suspect that Townsend engi
neered the visit inviting himself
suddenly, so that no courteous girl,
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"To make the Investment pay,
you'll have to trap a man who
makes at least $15,000 a year!"
or her mother, could possibly refuse
him to press his suit again. To put
it crudely, Townsend had not given
up hope of a good, cushy job (as a
sort of poor man's Prince Philip)
which he believes he could do superb
ly well, and probably could. But his
conduct in pursuing Maggie with an
object which could only result in her
breaking her very solemn statement
seems to us questionable."
The general tenor of the English
newspapers and of the letters written
to the papers by the English public,
which takes its royal family seriously,
had overtones of resentment, too.
One letter said: "We are fed to the
teeth with this silly so-called romance
between the Princess and a divorced
man who has left a good wife and
two children. One might have im
agined that the group captain would
, have had the grace of a gentleman
and stayed in seclusion."
Even before Townsend returned,
John Gordon, editor-in-chief of the
London Sunday Express, wrote: "What
a curious fellow Group Captain Town
send is. He declares he shrinks from
publicity, yet, as a rejected suitor,
he wanders around the world exploit
ing his grief-stricken, love-lorn con
dition with a success that must be the
envy of every publicity expert ... I
am sure that his determination to
stay in the limelight must be very
embarrassing to the royal lady who
renounced him."
Right now, as happened before
when Margaret said no to Townsend,
people and the press seem to be
sorry for her. However, moods change
quickly and nothing is duller or more
irritating than a sulky Princess who
does not pull her weight in entertain
ing, or at least titillating, her subjects.
As time goes on, the prospects of her
marrying and having a family of her
own seem more and more remote.
She seems even to have lost her early
great interest in her nephew and
niece. She is no longer the carefree
young wise-cracker who announced,
when the Queen named her baby:
"Now I'm Charlie's aunt!"
Peter Townsend will probably come
back' and back again until some
body stops him. So far, he has made
no move toward finding himself
another wife or a post which' would
remove him permanently from
Margaret's vicinity. After all, why
should he? What more has he to lose?
On the other hand, Princess Marga
ret, who has already lost a great deal
herself, stands in danger of sacrificing
even more: her sister's approval,
Prince Philip's affection, even the
sympathy of her subjects. It no
wonder that she is a troubled girl,
and it is a sorry fate for the fun-loving
little madcap Princess.
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