Shopgirls in Chelsea and clerks in Cheapside waited breathlessly last week for tidings that meant a happy or sad ending to the royal romance of the pretty Princess and the dashing airman. But beneath the soapsuds of sentiment, a serious crisis was forming. The plans of Princess Margaret, third in line for the throne of the British realm, and Group Captain Peter Townsend, R.A.F., a once-married commoner, have grown into the topmost concern of church and state. Britons sensed that a decision was in the making, but few knew all that was...
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