Peter Townsend (RAF officer)
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Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend was a British Royal Air Force officer, flying ace, courtier, and author. He served with distinction during the Second World War and, in 1944, was appointed eque
Townsend in 1940
Squadron Leader Townsend of No. 85 Squadron RAF exits his Hawker Hurricane at RAF Castle Camps, July 1940
Townsend (second from left) with several other World War II aces, 1968
Headstone of the grave in the churchyard of Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines, France.
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, was a British photographer. He was best known internationally for his portraits of prominent cultural and political figures, many of which w
Peter Townsend (RAF officer)
…perceptible sense of relief that things turned out the way they did", noting that "for men like Mark Phillips and Princess Margaret's eventual husband Antony Armstrong-Jones, [marrying into the royal family] turned out to be an almost impossible undertaking". In 2002, a sculpture of Townsend, designed by Guy Portelli, was…
Armstrong-Jones in 1965
Armstrong-Jones in 1958, photographed by Carl Van Vechten
Lord Snowdon, Lady Bird Johnson, Princess Margaret, and the United States president Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House on 17 November 1965