[Magdalen] Hot in church tomorrow?

[Marion Thompson]

Well, yes, certainly a slow rebound (wrong word, I guess), but what else 
could she do?  It was never, it seems to me, a great romance and love, 
only expedience. What else could she do?  She was trapped like a bird.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 6/27/2016 4:02 AM, Roger Stokes wrote:
> On 26/06/2016 23:45, Marion Thompson wrote:
>> She married Anthony Armstrong-Jones prretty much on the rebound and 
>> that ended in divorce after a couple of children. 
>
> It was a slow rebound, something like 7 or 8 years from memory. At the 
> time of the Townsend romance she was third in line to the Throne, and 
> would have been expected to have a significant role, quite possibly 
> regent, if the Queen gad died while Charles was still young. He was 
> about five at the time.  Bu the time she married in 1960 Prince Andrew 
> had been born so she had dropped to fourt in line and Charles was an 
> adolescent.
>
> Roger
>