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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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Rosemary cheated first, and if she'd had any evidence that he had cheated before her, she would have entered it in court so as to avoid being the "guilty party" and therefore ostracised by polite society. She didn't enter any, so either she was too stupid to realise what allowing herself to be legally blamed for the breakup would mean, or there wasn't any. I've never read that Rosemary was stupid...