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Originally Posted by james
I have no knowledge of the intelligence levels of Rosemary Townsend but I know that naming the daughter of the King as the woman whom her husband was commiting adultery with would have been, in itself, a certain way to attain social exclusion. Even with this consideration aside, taking on the establishment, especially in those days, would probably have seemed terrifying.
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Even if she had been unwilling to name Margaret, Peter could have been trapped with another woman and named as the guilty party that way.
There is simply no reason to think, or evidence to prove, a teenaged Princess Margaret, who was very proper when it suited her, would have slept with a married man, regardless of her disgraceful behavior in middle-age. And there's certainly no evidence that Townsend consummated the relationship with Margaret before his death -- some doubt whether it was ever consummated at all, even after his divorce.
Eileen Parker, in her divorce from Michael, made some comments about Prince Philip and infidelity that haven't been proven even now, five decades after she made them, even though numerous journalists have tried to corroborate her story. She doesn't have much credibility, and I say this as someone who doesn't think either Philip or Margaret are/were paragons of virtue. Nothing she's said has been able to be proven, and therefore anything she said has to be taken with a heap of salt.