Page 29 - Peter Townsend News Today

It means that the queen is very conflicted. >> the royal court reacts very badly to the news of a romance between margaret and townsend. but a lot of ordinary people very much sympathized with margaret and townsend. and i do think that the senior courtiers were really rather out of step with the mood of the nation. >> so when the press does stop talking about it, theres a great divide between those who think divorce is unacceptable and those who feel let love prevail. >> margarets profile in the...

>> and her advisers as well as the british government are still opposed to margaret marrying peter townsend. >> the prime minister said if you marry townsend youve got to abandon your royal status. >> people of the city were thrilled and delighted. >> margaret will become mrs. peter townsend, for someone whos been brought up like shes been brought up this is not an alluring prospect. for three weeks theyre harried by the press. they go from place to place agonizingly trying to make up their mind...

Princesss favorite suitor. >> peter townsend was a war hero, very good-looking. he was known as this dashing air force pilot. his reputation was a wonderful one. >> margaret desperately wants to marry townsend. but the problem is that she is 22 and any member of the royal family under the age of 25 needs to have the consent of the ruling monarch. the decision is not in margarets hands. its in the hands of her sister, the queen. >> the queen is in a terrible bind really over this because she love...

An act of such intimacy that there is something going on between princess margaret and royal servant, group captain peter townsend. >> its a scandal. peter townsend is not only a royal servant, hes also 16 years older than the princess and divorced with two young children. >> there is a horror in the royal family. they regard divorce with a sort of almost superstitious dread. >> 17 years earlier the queens uncle edward viii abdicated to marry american divorcee wallis simpson. elizabeths father r...

The country, the country he served as a fighter pilot during the second world war, and i think that was very difficult for him. >> princess margaret finds this incredibly hurtful. two years when youre 23, two years is a long time. >> the queen hopes she has defused the scandal. but two years later townsend returns. >> excitement bubbles like champagne in london as group captain peter townsend returns from diplomatic duties in belgium to call on princess margaret. and perhaps a climactic phase op...

The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will take place at Westminster Abbey, the historic church in central London which has played a major role in her life.

Along the line there are stewards, plenty of police officers, everyone is very friendly, there are coffee and tea stands set up, and everybody is in this together. somebody said to me, a man who came overfrom belgium, he was struck by the britishness of it all, the queueing and friendliness among everyone to take part in this historic event. absolutely the same here, there is almost an excited atmosphere as people are around in this area because they are feeling that they can be part of this eve...

Around a 16 hour wait. im in southwark park, and you cant get the scale of how big it is but it is divided into four zones and when all of those zones are full to capacity we are told the queueing might be paused, so everyone is very much watching to see whether that will happen. when i got my wristband this morning, when ijoined the line, when i came in, ive now been speaking to other people and looked at their wristbands, there are around 20,000 — 30,000 people, looking at rudimentary maths,...

As often as they wish. it is only on occasions like this that they can enjoy the happiness of parenthood. crowd: we want the queen! we want the queen! - at the age ofjust 27, she was crowned queen. and her role as monarch meant taking tough decisions felt by those closest to her. prince philip had to give up his career in the navy, and then a constitutional crisis. upon princess margaret centres worldwide interest. her sister princess margaret had fallen in love with a divorced man, peter townse...

They were rewarded with a glimpse of they were rewarded with a glimpse of the new king, king charles, as he arrived at buckingham palace in the last few minutes. we saw his vehicle and a couple of other vehicles, part of the motorcade coming into the palace, and quite a crowd behind the barricades with a big cheer for the king. world leaders will begin gathering in london from today for the state funeral of queen elizabeth on monday. members of the public are still queueing in their thousands to...