Real story of Princess Margaret £900,000 wedding tiara: Why didn’t the Queen give her one?

Princess Margaret wore on the largest and most ostentatious royal wedding tiara of British history on the day. However, she bought it herself.

Did Peter Townsend marry Princess Margaret?

Despite their love affair, which was dramatised in The Crown, Peter and Margaret never married.

Sadly their romance came with too many difficulties to over come.

These problematic circumstances included Peter’s previous marriage to Rosemary Pawle, ending in divorce.

Despite the public’s support for the pair, Margaret finally issued a statement that she no longer wished to marry Peter.

Peter did not end his life alone, however, and in 1959 – when he was 44 – he married a 20-year-old Belgian woman.