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Princess Margaret: A Love Story

Timewatch documentary that looks back to the constitutional crisis caused by Princess Margaret's 1950s affair with divorced commoner Peter Townsend.

Documentary that looks back to the furore caused by Princess Margaret's affair with Peter Townsend, a divorced commoner. Billed as a constitutional crisis, Margaret's dilemma was the first modern royal scandal which would shape the future of royal relations with the media. In 1955 she chose to sacrifice love for duty by ending the affair, but new evidence presented here suggests that hers was a needless sacrifice.

50 minutes

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