View Princess Margaret Young The Crown Background. Princess margaret was the younger daughter of king george vi and queen elizabeth the queen mother, and sister to the queen. I simply hadn't the weight, i knew it, to counterbalance all she would have lost, wrote peter townsend in his autobiography, time and chance.
Princess margaret reacted gracefully, attending the younger couple's wedding and remaining friends with both. Margaret and peter come to elizabeth with a request. The crown shows prime minister sir anthony eden stressing the cabinet's opposition to the marriage and threatening the princess with exile for five years if she goes ahead.
The young princess got on well with her sister but while elizabeth was already being groomed for the role of queen, margaret was just margaret.
The crown shows prime minister sir anthony eden stressing the cabinet's opposition to the marriage and threatening the princess with exile for five years if she goes ahead. 'she loved men and snogging'. This happened in real life, as de courcy writes in her book: Margaret and peter come to elizabeth with a request.