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Queen Elizabeth II adores Prince Harry and is determined to spoil him. After her marriage to Meghan Markle in Windsor, she just gave him a cottage in the castle park … with a very special story.
On May 19, Windsor was the scene of the royal wedding and people of the year. With very famous guests, a bride to fall in Givenchy dress and a future husband totally in love with his half, the English and the whole world have taken advantage of these incredible marriages. Already spoiled by Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle received a new and beautiful gift. The monarch gave them the Adelaide cottage, named after the wife of King William IV for whom the house was built in 1831, located in the heart of Windsor's Royal Park, as reported by the Daily Mail . They currently live in Nottingham Cottage, often called Nott Cott, on the grounds of Kensington Palace, the home of Prince William, Kate Middleton and their three children.
But the Adelaide cottage has a very special story for the royal family. And for good reason, it has a time sheltered the secret loves of the princess Margaret with Peter Townsend, a captain of the army of 17 years his eldest. When Queen Elizabeth II's little sister first meets this hero of the Royal Air Force, she immediately falls under her spell. There is still no question of love between them, Margaret is far too young.
The secret loves of Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend
The rebel of the royal family knows it: Peter Townsend is the man of his life. But the man who has just been named king George VI's squire accumulates many faults in the eyes of the royal family, and there is no question of age difference. He is a commoner, married, and will soon become a father. Yet life will bring them together for three months, in February 1947. She is almost 17 years old and has to go on a cruise to South Africa. George VI, who knows nothing of his daughter's feelings for his squire, will charge Peter Townsend to chaperone her. If nothing badures that their romance started at this time, doubt is allowed, Margaret having confessed to a friend very close that she had "adored every moment of this trip".
But Margaret knows, nobody can accept her forbidden love. So they hide. Until the little sister of Elizabeth II, annihilated by the disappearance of her father, no longer wishes to hide his love story. She invites the one she has secretly loved for so many years in Windsor where he is, to his surprise, well received. It is not Elizabeth, so attached to her sister and who understands better than anyone that nothing can be done against love, which will disturb her happiness with Peter, now Elizabeth II's squire. They will live in Windsor their love and Mr. Townsend, divorced from the mother of his two children, is now free to live with Margaret.
The world against Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend
But not everyone hears it as well as Elizabeth: part of the press and the political clbad get carried away. And after the scandals that tainted the royal family in December 1936, when King Edward VIII abdicated to Wallis Simpson, Queen Elizabeth II can not afford a new controversy. It is Churchill, then Prime Minister, who will put the fatal blow to the couple by sending Peter Townsend on a mission on the old continent, far from Margaret … who must for its part make a trip to Rhodesia. For two years, the two lovers will maintain an epistolary liaison and will meet again in 1955. But the opposition of the Anglican Church to any remarriage makes their union impossible. On October 31, 1955, she announced publicly, at the microphone of the BBC, his break with the man of his life because of "his duties towards his country".
After several relationships, she married in 1960, a photographer, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, with whom she will have two children, David and Sarah. Eighteen years later, because of the alleged connections of Princess Margaret, the divorce couple.
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