Princess Margaret really wanted to marry him. We’re talking about the fighter pilot Peter Townsend. He was said to have been her true love, but royal protocol forbade her from marrying him. She had only one choice: leave the royal family, as her uncle Edward once did for Wallis Simpson, or forgo marriage to Townsend. She chose the latter, but the decision is said to have weighed on Princess Margaret for a long time.
Even though she wasn’t allowed to marry Townsend because he was a commoner and had already been divorced once, the two had a secret relationship in the early 1950s. The colonel had worked as an equerry at the royal court since 1944, but was still married and the father of two sons. He divorced in 1952 as his relationship with the Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret, began to leak out. According to the British magazine “Daily Mail”, the two are even said to have secretly gotten engaged.
In July 1953 it was publicly known that Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend were in a relationship, but in the months before that Princess Margaret had apparently cheated on her true love. She is said to have had an affair with the then very popular singer Eddie Fisher. The singer’s ex-wife, Terry Richard, reports this in her book “Beauty Queen Dreams”. Back in 2016, the late singer’s daughter, actress Carrie Fisher, confirmed: “My father had sex with Princess Margaret” on the “Jonathan Ross Show.”
Richard now brings to light new, juicy details that her late husband is said to have told her. A decisive night is said to have been that of the “Red White and Blue Balls” in May 1953. The princess is said to have whispered in the ear of Eddie Fisher, who sang for three quarters of an hour that evening, that she would meet him later at Clarence House, according to Richard. After the ball, a car is said to have picked him up at his hotel and taken him to Princess Margaret. The lady-in-waiting, with whom Fisher is said to have subsequently slept, led him to a living room that was said to have been connected to Margaret’s bedroom.
“The bedroom smelled of cigarettes and expensive perfume,” writes Richard, “Margaret met him at the door in a transparent negligee with lace decorations.” The memoir also goes into more detail about the couple’s affair: “He told me the sex was explosive. Margaret wasn’t a virgin. She was uninhibited in bed. After sex they both drank a double whiskey and laughed and joked.”
“When they had finished their whiskey, Iris, the lady-in-waiting, was called and she led Eddie out. He remembered every detail years later. There was a chandelier hanging over the bed and the room was decorated in various shades of pink. The pillows were off Silk. He said Margaret had the most perfect breasts of any woman he had ever slept with – and he had slept with many women, including Liz Taylor.”
Fisher is said to have been particularly proud of the fact that he had been in bed with both the princess and later with her lady-in-waiting. However, his ex-wife cannot reconstruct whether Margaret knew this. But Terry Richard offers a new perspective on the princess, saying: “In a way, the fact that she slept with Eddie contradicts the narrative that she was this poor girl who was doomed to be unhappy because of her She couldn’t marry the man she loved. Eddie told me she was a woman who knew exactly what she wanted, and on the night of the ball she wanted him.”
Sources: Daily Mail, NYPost, Gala
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