[Peter] co-founded the Child Poverty Action Group and the Disability Alliance. Peter Townsend was an academic sociologist, researcher and prominent social policy campaigner. He wrote extensively on ...

Townsend was also a commoner and a divorcé—both unthinkable to the Royal Family at the time. In April 1953, a decorated former RAF officer named Peter Townsend caused a stir by proposing to ...

Princess Margaret (left) and Peter Townsend (second right), seen here with Princess Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth at Ascot 1951, had known each other since she was a teenager Medals belonging to ...