Which brings us to Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend. Princess Margaret, the younger daughter of King George VI, absolutely concurred with this opinion when she met Townsend in 1947 at the age of 17. The agreement the Crown reached was that Princess Margaret could marry Peter Townsend, but doing so would require her to “give up the privileges of life as a Royal Princess to become the wife of a man in moderate circumstances.” On October 31, 1955, Princess Margaret announced, “I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend.” One year later, Princess Margaret married the photographer Antony Armstrong- Jones.