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Originally Posted by james
Iv'e never felt sorry for Margaret over the Townsend affair as it seems to have been her relationship with him that led to his divorce in the first place. The popular myth is that he just happened to be a divorced man but many sources from the time have shown another side to this. Eileen Parker, wife of Prince Philip's great friend Mike Parker, has said on record, " It wasn't easy for Rosemary (Townsend's wife) as Princess Margaret at the age of 17 was openly flirting with Peter and demanding he go riding with her when he was trying to spend time with his wife and children in between his Royal duties". Apparently this went on for years eventually leading to a full blown affair but when Rosemary had an extra marital relationship of her own Peter took the moral high ground and divorced her.
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I don't feel sorry for her either. I've heard that she was given the option of renouncing her HRH in order to marry Townsend but declined, unable to live without the privilidges that the HRH status gave her. If she truly loved Peter, if he was the love of her life and she couldn't bear to be without him she would have followed him to hell and back. She would have renounced her HRH happily and married him never regretting it. This obviously was not the case. I think he was to her a silly little infatuation that challenged her because as a married man she could not have him and as a princess she was used to demanding and recieving everything and anything she wanted.
What a homewrecker!!! I think that she hurt a lot of lives and walked over a lot of people in her lifetime simply because she could. Not very nice!:(