Princess Margarets great love betrayal revealed

Late British royal Princess Margaret made a pact with her first love Group Captain Peter Townsend never to marry anyone else after they were forced to break off their relationship, and was furious when he betrayed her by deciding to marry a young Belgian girl, reveals a new biography.

London, Aug 30 : Late British royal Princess Margaret made a pact with her first love Group Captain Peter Townsend never to marry anyone else after they were forced to break off their relationship, and was furious when he "betrayed" her by deciding to marry a young Belgian girl, reveals a new biography.

The book, Princess Margaret - A Life Unravelled, has been penned by Tim Heald, who was given this information by writer Anne Edwards, a friend of Townsend.

Edwards told Heald about how Princess Margaret had written an 'angry, bitter letter' to Townsend told her that he had proposed to 19-year old Marie-Luce Jamagne.

"It was an angry, bitter letter written in Margaret's hand on her personal stationery. She did indeed accuse him of betraying their great love and the vow they had both made that neither would ever marry another," the Daily Express quoted Edwards, as saying in the book.

"She also asked him to burn all of her love letters to him. He had saved a few and quite impassioned they were (in later years he told me he had destroyed those as well as that last letter from her)," she added.

Edwards also revealed that this 'betrayal' in turn prompted Princess Margaret to accept the marriage proposal of photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones, later Lord Snowdon.

"The Princess married Tony out of pure spite for marrying against their vow (which he had agreed to) and being happy with Marie-Luce," she tells Heald.

And while Townsend found happiness in his second marriage, Edwards revealed that he still felt remorse about the whole incident.

"He told her [Anne Edwards] he was afraid he might carry some guilt about the Princess to his grave. The actual words he used were, 'She believed I had betrayed her,'" she says in the book.

ANI