Hello, how're you? :) if you're still interested in Princess Margaret, I hope you won't mind answering next questions (if you have received the same ones in the past, I apologize in advance): - did M and Peter ever meet again later in life? - do you believe he was the love of her life as many claim?
Hello :) I’m doing alright thank you, hope you are too? I am indeed, though I have been slacking in content recently. And no need to apologise! I’ll do my best to answer them - based on what i’ve read in her biography or my own opinion...
1. In her biography she says that “We had an understanding that if Peter was here he should come in. But it soon became obvious that that would never work.” They met again in March 1958 before Margaret flew out to Germany for an engagement, but the press caught wind of it and camped outside near Clarence House for over two hours before Peter even arrived. Their very last meeting was in 1992, the first time since 1958, when Margaret invited him to lunch. Peter was 77 years old then and Margaret (61) said that he “was exactly the same, except he had grey hair.”
2. This is more my opinion, but I think so, maybe... I feel like he was her first real love, and I suppose when you’re young and you love that hard for so many years to the point you would marry the other person, then it’s something that will have made a very deep impression on you. To be willing to wait two years and more to marry him, despite the obstacles, I think shows a lot. She felt betrayed when Peter got engaged again as they apparently had an ‘understanding’ - whether that was to not get married to someone at all, or just after a certain period, I don’t know. This was around the time she and Anthony were courting. I think she longed for a love like that, which maybe she didn’t get from Anthony in some ways, as she was a little dependent on him for attention. Put a little more simply, I don’t think she found that same kind of love again.
