Princess Margaret's Scandalous Engagement to Peter Townsend
From:Princess Margaret
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In April 1953, a decorated former RAF officer named Peter Townsend caused a stir by proposing to Princess Margaret, who was 15 years his junior. Townsend was also a commoner and a divorcé--both unthinkable to the Royal Family at the time.