![]() ![]() Hulton Archive/Getty Images/The Print Collector/Getty Images Margaret and Townsend ![]() Margaret's intimate gesture towards a royal equerry on the day of the coronation sparked an onslaught of press reporting. Princess Margaret and (inset) Queen Elizabeth II photographed on coronation day, June 1953. Once set into the public domain, the speculation about Margaret's relationship with Townsend brought to her sister's door a family crisis that placed her at a constitutional impasse, forcing her to navigate the emotions of her sister and her duties as the reigning monarch and head of the Church of England. The gesture confirmed to the eagle-eyed media rumors that had been circulating since Elizabeth acceded to the throne a year earlier, that Margaret was conducting a love affair with the war hero and royal householder Peter Townsend. ![]() ![]() Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, became the center of intense media focus after she appeared at the coronation of her sister-for intimately picking some fluff off the shoulder of a handsome divorced equerry. Long before all the furore over Prince Harry and whether he will attend the coronation of King Charles III amid ongoing family feuds, there was another royal "spare" whose coronation attendance put the monarch in a difficult position. ![]()
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