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Rosemary Pratt, Marchioness Camden
Rosemary Pratt, Marchioness Camden (9 May 1921 – 27 February 2004), born Cecil Rosemary Pawle, was a British socialite and artist, best known as the first wife of Group Captain Peter Townsend, who later became romantically involved with Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom.
Rosemary was the daughter of Brigadier-General Hanbury Pawle CBE DL (1886–1972), a Deputy Lieutenant for Hertfordshire, by his marriage to Mary Cecil Hughes-Hallett (d. 1971), both of whom were from families of the landed gentry. On 17 July 1941 at Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, she married Peter Townsend (1914–1995). Townsend was a decorated Royal Air Force pilot, who early in the Second World War had brought down the first German bomber to crash in England since 1918. In 1941, he was recovering from injuries incurred in a dogfight. The young Rosemary met the glamorous young ace, and married him after a whirlwind two-week courtship. Townsend later joined the Royal Household in 1944 under an "equerries of honour scheme".〔(CNN story on Townsend at the death of Princess Margaret ), 10 February 2002〕 With Townsend, she had two sons, Giles (1942–2015) and Hugo (born 1945). King George VI acted as godfather to Hugo, who was briefly a monk and later married a Belgian noblewoman, Yolande Princesse de Ligne.
==Divorce==
Their marriage began to collapse due to Townsend's prolonged absences from home. According to news reports, he later discovered Rosemary's affair with John de László, the youngest son of the painter Philip de László, and was granted a decree nisi in 1952 for his wife's adultery. Since Townsend was a divorced man, and divorce was then anathema to the British Establishment and the Royal Household, Princess Margaret was later effectively forbidden to marry Townsend, told that she would lose her Royal status and privileges if she did so.
The accounts of this period are somewhat in conflict, and some obituaries for Rosemary and her former husband have suggested a different story behind the official one.〔See, notably, the Times obituary for Rosemary. "Rosemary, Marchioness Camden" ''The Times'' 6 March 2004. (). The obituary begins by saying "On Townsend's own admission, shortly before his death in 1995, his wartime marriage to Rosemary Pawle, when he was a fighter pilot and war hero, had become a victim of the strains imposed by his becoming a courtier long before its eventual dissolution in the courts in 1952. But in the climate of blame which was integral to the divorce process in those days, he emerged as the innocent party and was granted custody of his children." It points out Townsend's long hours in Royal service, and his interest in moving to South Africa (not shared by his wife) after the 1947 Royal visit to South Africa. The obituary points out that "By 1951 the attachment of Townsend and Princess Margaret was intensifying, and the process was to be accelerated by the premature death of her father King George VI in 1952, after which Townsend was appointed Equerry to the Queen. By that year, too, his marriage to Rosemary had finally ended in the divorce courts, the ground being her adultery with John de Laszlo, son of the society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo. John de Laszlo and Rosemary were married later that year." No date is put for the starting of the affair between John de Laszlo and Rosemary.〕 Princess Margaret and Townsend became close at some point before Townsend sued for divorce in November 1952; most obituaries state that the Princess turned to Townsend for comfort after the sudden death of her father in February 1952.
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