How Prince William and Kate's Windsor home was once lived in by Princess Margaret's chaperone-turned-lover: Inside Adelaide Cottage's connection to royal scandal Prince Margaret's relationship with Peter Townsend rocked the Establishment By Harry Howard, History Correspondent For Mailonline and Rebekah Absalom Published: 03:22 EDT, 16 June 2024 | Updated: 05:07 EDT, 19 June 2024 e-mail 26 shares 39 View comments It is the modest four-bedroom property in Windsor that has been the home of Prince William and Kate and their young family since 2022. The Prince and Princess of Wales are said to be very happy at Adelaide Cottage - even though Prince Andrew's home Royal Lodge is believed to have been earmarked for them. But Adelaide Cottage has a far more intriguing past than its quaint pink walls suggest - for it was once the home of the man Princess Margaret was not allowed to marry.
Group Captain Peter Townsend lived there with his wife Rosemary and children in the 1940s, when he served as equerry to King George VI . Teenage princesses Elizabeth and Margaret and their mother Queen Elizabeth used to take tea in the gardens of the cottage with the Townsends and their young sons. Townsend and Margaret became romantically involved before his split from his wife in 1952 - but they deterred from marrying because of his status as a divorced man.
The Wales' residence, Adelaide Cottage, is a charming Grade II listed four-bedroom property, which was once home to Princess Margaret's lover, P.
