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THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF PETER TOWNSEND THE MAN CONSIDERED TO BE THE GREAT LOVE OF PRINCESS MARGARETS LIFE EQUERRY TO KING GEORGE VI AND HERO OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

One afternoon at Windsor Castle when everyone had gone to London for some ceremony we talked in the red drawingroom for hoursabout ourselves It was then that we made the mutual discovery of how much we meant to one another She listened without uttering a word as I told her very quietly of my feelings Then she simply said That is exactly how I feel too It was to us both an immensely gladdening disclosure but one which sorely troubled us

The romance between Princess Margaret and Group Captain Peter Townsend in the 1950s rocked the British Establishment pulled at the heartstrings of a nation and brought sorrow to two intensely human individuals

In Time and Chance Peter Townsend tells his side of the story in intensely personal terms and places the episode within the whole context of his full and varied life a story which includes great heroism in World War II as well as his part in one of the most publicized love stories of the twentieth century