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</i><b style="background-color: white; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;"><i>Barça TV International offers programming blocks of 3 hours twice a week to clients from all corners of the globe in three different languages: English, Spanish and Catalan. </i></b><b style="background-color: white; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;"><i>The Barça TV International package includes the channel’s most exclusive programming in a ready to broadcast format. Graphics are all translated into English for the benefit of all of Barça TV’s viewers around the globe.</i></b><b style="background-color: white; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;"><i>For additional information please contact the Production team at Barça TV: dptoproduccion.barcatv@telefonica.com</i></b><ul class="site-footer__sponsors__items site-footer__sponsors__items--important" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;">
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Saad Lamjarred pourrait être libéré sous caution pour 500.000 euros

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<span style="color: red;">Saad Lamjarred pourrait être libéré sous caution pour 500.000 euros</span></h1>
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<b><i>L’incarcération de <a class="spip_in" href="http://euroexclusive.blogspot.com/2016/12/saad-lamjarred-pourrait-etre-libere.html" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(136, 136, 136); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a3d52; text-decoration: none;">Saad Lamjarred</a> pourrait prendre fin la semaine prochaine. Une libération conditionnelle pourrait être accordée après le paiement d’une caution.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>D’après des sources proches de la star interrogées par le journal Al Quds Al Arabi, le chanteur marocain pourrait quitter la prison dans quelques jours après le paiement d’une caution de 500.000 euros.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Saad Lamjarred ne sera pas libre pour autant puisqu’il devra se plier à plusieurs exigences du juge, notamment l’interdiction de quitter le territoire français ou de se mettre en relation avec sa présumée victime.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Si la star marocaine est libérée, elle pourra ainsi mieux préparer sa défense et le début du procès prévu sans doute dans plusieurs mois.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Pour rappel, Saad Lamjared est incarcéré depuis fin octobre dernier à Fleury-Mérogis suite à une plainte d’une jeune Française de 20 ans qui l’accuse de viol dans une chambre d’hôtel à Paris.</i></b></div>
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The invisible credit card of the future

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Imagine strolling into your localsupermarket, popping your essentials into a basket, heading to the bagging area - where no items are unexpected - and walking out with your weekly shop.</div>
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<b><i>There is no need to make a payment, no fiddling with coins, and no placement of a debit or credit card in a terminal. In fact, there is no till at all.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>This is not casual shoplifting but a realistic prospect of the fut <span style="font-size: 1rem;">ure way to pay - when technology recognises your presence, scans your shopping, and invisibly takes payment from your account.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Amer Sajed, the chief executive of Barclaycard, says it will spell the steady demise of the physical plastic credit card, which his company <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36518248" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">introduced to the UK 50 years ago</a>.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>"People will be able to seamlessly shop going between the web, an app or in store," he says.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>It will also create a battle for control of your digital wallet between banks and technology companies, as well as prompt debate over our privacy and security</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Credit cards have evolved since 1966, but the basic procedure of payment has remained the same. A card is either handed over, or the number on it is read out or entered into a machine.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>All that requires the existence of a plastic card, but Mr Sajed says this is being replaced by wearable items.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>At a display for Barclaycard staff, he shows off a plastic ring, a bracelet and a keychain which all contain a chip allowing the shopper to make payments on credit.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>This, he says, is just a bridge to technology that will see customers identified by their eye or fingerprint, located via their smartphone, and able to shop without queuing up at a checkout.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Although cash, cheques and indeed cards will remain an option for shoppers, he says, these new ways of paying will take a growing share of the payments market in 10 years' time.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Such a prospect sounds frightening for anyone who already has concerns about corporations, and potentially hackers, tracking our whereabouts or spending habits.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>"We would never track anyone's location or data without their express knowledge. and it would only be for things that the customer has allowed us to do."</i></b></div>
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<b><i>There is an extra benefit, he says, as it is much easier to authorise a transaction when a card company knows a customer's location. It is easier to stop fraud for the same reason.</i></b></div>
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Trump-Taiwan call: China lodges protest

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<b><i>China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province. US policy set in 1979 cut formal relations with Taiwan.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Mr Trump's transition team said he and Tsai Ing-wen noted "close economic, political, and security ties".</i></b></div>
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<b><i>The US is Taiwan's most important ally and provides Taiwan with sufficient weaponry to defend itself.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>China said it had lodged a "solemn representation" with Washington.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>According to the state news agency Xinhua, China urged the US "to cautiously, properly handle Taiwan issue to avoid unnecessary disturbance to Sino-US relations".</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Foreign Minister Wang Yi dismissed the call as a "petty trick" by Taiwan, Chinese state media said.</i></b></div>
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<i>What happened?</i></h2>
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<b><i>Mr Trump tweeted on Friday that Ms Tsai had called him to congratulate him on winning the US election.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>His team said that the US president-elect had also congratulated Ms Tsai on becoming the president of Taiwan last January.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>No US president or president-elect has spoken directly to a Taiwanese leader for decades.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Following media reports pointing out the risks of angering China, <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://euroexclusive.blogspot.com/2016/12/trump-taiwan-call-china-lodges-protest.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Trump tweeted</a>: "Interesting how the US sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call."</i></b></div>
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<b><i>The White House has said Mr Trump's conversation does not signal any change in US policy. US media reported that the White House learned of the call only after it had happened.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Mr Trump's spokeswoman said he was "well aware" of US policy towards Taiwan.</i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Read more</span>: <a class="story-body__link" href="http://euroexclusive.blogspot.com/2016/12/trump-taiwan-call-china-lodges-protest.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What's behind the China-Taiwan divide?</a></i></b></div>
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<b><i>The split between China and Taiwan goes back to 1949, when the Republic of China (ROC) Kuomintang (KMT) government fled the mainland to Taiwan after being defeated by the communists under Mao Zedong. The KMT held China's seat on the UN Security Council and was, for a while, recognised by many Western nations as the only Chinese government.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>But in 1971, the UN switched diplomatic recognition to Beijing. Only a handful of countries now recognise Taiwan's government.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Washington cut formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan in 1979, expressing its support for Beijing's "one country, two systems" concept, which states that Taiwan is part of China.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>But despite the cut, the US remains, by far, Taiwan's most important friend, and its only ally.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>The Taiwan Relations Act promises to supply Taiwan with defensive weapons. It says that any attack by China on Taiwan would be considered of "grave concern" to the US.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>China has hundreds of missiles pointing towards Taiwan, and has threatened to use force if it seeks independence.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>President Tsai, Taiwan's first female leader, led the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to a landslide <a class="story-body__link" href="http://euroexclusive.blogspot.com/2016/12/trump-taiwan-call-china-lodges-protest.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">victory in the January 2016 election.</a></i></b></div>
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<b><i>The DPP has traditionally leaned towards independence from China. President Tsai's administration does not accept the "One China" policy.</i></b></div>
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<i>From concern to alarm and anger - Carrie Gracie,euroexclusive  China </i></h2>
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<b><i>Mr Trump's decision to turn his back on four decades of US protocol on Taiwan and speak directly to a president of Taiwan has stunned policymakers in Beijing.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Since his election last month, they have struggled to understand who is advising Donald Trump on Asia and what his China policy will look like.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>This move will turn concern into alarm and anger.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Beijing sees Taiwan as a province. Denying it any of the trappings of an independent state is one of the key priorities of Chinese foreign policy.</i></b></div>
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<i>Mild reaction - Cindy Sui, ,euro exclusive Taipei</i></h2>
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<b><i>China's reaction is relatively mild. It doesn't want to get off on the wrong foot with Mr Trump. And it sees Mr Trump as an inexperienced politician, so for now it's willing to forgive him and not play this up.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>It may also be somewhat reassured by statements from the US that its policy on China and Taiwan has not changed. But behind the scenes it's safe to say China is working hard to "educate" the Trump team on not repeating such diplomatic faux pas.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>This move by Taiwan's President Tsai will further infuriate Beijing and make it distrust her even more and see her as favouring Taiwan's formal independence from China.</i></b></div>
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GreatBritish Bake Off star Nadiya Hussain will invite listeners into her home while she cooks a family feast as part of a BBC radio <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="http://euroexclusive.blogspot.com/2016/11/nadiya-hussain-and-attenborough-part-of_26.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;" target="_blank">Christmas</a> lineup featuring David Attenborough, Glenda Jackson and Clare Balding.</div>
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Hussain will be joined for the two-hour <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="http://euroexclusive.blogspot.com/2016/11/nadiya-hussain-and-attenborough-part-of_26.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Radio 2</a> programme on 21 December by presenter and wine expert Olly Smith as she cooks dishes such as salmon kedgeree and gingerbread cake, accompanied by the pair’s favourite songs.</div>
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The show is Hus sain’s first new programme for the BBC after saying she would be making the corporation her “home”, scotching speculation she would join Channel 4 as a presenter or judge on the channel’s version of Bake Off.</div>
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She said: “My birthday is on Christmas Day, so it’s always a big day in my house as we usually all gather for a huge feast. It’ll be great fun giving Radio 2 listeners lots of tips and recipes as they prepare for the festivities, plus I’m really looking forward to welcoming Olly </div>
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Christmas morning will be welcomed in on Radio 2 by Clare Balding with guests the archbishop of Westminster and comedian Barry Humphries – better known as Dame Edna Everage – who will present a two-hour festive edition of his Forgotten Musical Masterpieces later that evening.</div>
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The station will also broadcast Paul Gambaccini’s exploration of the friendship between the Beatles and Kenny Everett, incorporating archive audio of the comedian and radio DJ and members of the band, as well as new interviews.</div>
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Attenborough will occupy the Radio 3 evening slot on Christmas Day, telling the stories behind music he recorded while travelling the world. The Planet Earth narrator has been digging through recordings from places such as New Guinea, Borneo, Paraguay and Tonga, which he was inspired to begin collecting in the 1950s after working on The Song Hunter, which was presented by Alan Lomax and brought a host of traditional musicians from Britain and Ireland to TV for the first time.</div>
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“I’m delighted that the music I recorded, all over the world, half a century ago, is coming to light at last,” said Attenborough. “I’m enjoying listening to it very much and I hope the Radio 3 audience will enjoy it too, and the stories of how I met the players and singers who shared with me their fascinating and wonderful music.”</div>
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For modern music lovers there will be a Sound of 2017 poll on Radio 1 searching for up-and-coming talent for the year ahead, while 6 Musicwill offer shows from three “wise women”: Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan, Laura Marling and Annie Nightingale, each playing music that has inspired them, while looking back over 2016 and to the year ahead</div>
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Did the Queen stop Princess Margaret marrying Peter Townsend?

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<b>The lavish production of The Crown, the drama of the Queen's reign running on Netflix, perpetuates the myth that Princess Margaret was browbeaten into giving up Group Captain Peter Townsend, the war hero who proposed to her in 1953. But documents in the National Archives show that the reality was quite different, writes former BBC Court correspondent Paul Reynolds.</b></div>
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<b>The Crown shows Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden stressing the cabinet's opposition to the marriage and threatening the princess with exile for five years if she goes ahead.</b></div>
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<b>The Queen tells her sister chillingly that if she marries Townsend she will no longer be a member of the family.</b></div>
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<b>But in fact, papers available in the National Archives since 2004 show that the Queen and Eden drew up a plan in 1955 under which Princess Margaret could marry Townsend while keeping her royal title and her civil list allowance of £6,000 a year plus another £9,000 on marriage. She could live in this country and even continue with public duties if the public approved, as was highly likely.</b></div>
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<b>However, she would have to renounce her rights of succession and those of her children.</b></div>
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<b>Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend, a former Battle of Britain pilot, fell in love when he was an equerry first to George VI and then to Elizabeth II. In 1952 he divorced <span style="font-size: 1rem;">his </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">wife </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">on </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">the grounds of her adultery and subsequently proposed to Margaret</span></b></div>
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<b>However, the Queen was required to give permission for the marriage under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772 and, under pressure from the government of Winston Churchill and the Church of England which opposed divorce, she refused. Instead Margaret and Townsend were told to wait for two years until she was 25 and more able, under the Act, to choose for herself. Townsend was despatched to be an air attache in Brussels, living on his own in a hotel room.</b></div>
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<b>After the two years was up, there was still a problem. The Queen maintained her refusal to give permission. The princess, having reached the age of 25, could have asked Parliament to override this refusal but that would have caused a sensation. This time, however, a compromise was worked out. The government was now under Anthony Eden who had been divorced and remarried himself.</b></div>
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<b>He pledged to amend the Act to remove Margaret and her children from the succession. The Queen's permission would therefore be unnecessary. It was simple and decisive - the Act was blocking the marriage, so the Act would be changed. The Queen agreed.</b></div>
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<b>Far from opposing her sister's marriage, the Queen's attitude was summed up by Eden in a letter to Commonwealth prime ministers: "Her Majesty would not wish to stand in the way of her sister's happiness."</b></div>
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<b>Eden himself, in his letter to Commonwealth prime ministers was very sympathetic to Princess Margaret. "Exclusion from the Succession would not entail any other change in Princess Margaret's position as a member of the Royal Family," he wrote.</b></div>
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<b>One mystery is why the princess herself, only three days after the final draft of the proposa was produced, announced on 31 October 1955 that she would not be marrying Townsend after all.</b></div>
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<b>A clue may come in a letter in the files, from the princess herself to Eden in August 1955. She says she will see Townsend in October: "It is only by seeing him in this way that I feel I can properly decide whether I can marry him or not." This letter indicates perhaps that her determination to marry him was not quite as strong as has been believed.</b></div>
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<b>The princess would have said: "I have come to the conclusion that in all the circumstances the best course for me to follow is to marry P.T. and give up my rights to the Succession…" This formulation is not as romantic as an earlier one which read: "I have come to the conclusion that it is necessary for my future happiness that I should marry P.T."</b></div>
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<b>Townsend was still frowned on by some in the establishment and the removal by officials of the reference to Margaret's happiness and the use of his initials only may reflect this.</b></div>
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<b>The Queen would then consult her government and the Commonwealth governments, who had, the papers show, actually been squared by Eden beforehand. The government, at the Queen's request, would introduce legislation to amend the 1772 Act and Commonwealth governments would do the same.</b></div>
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<b>A statement by the prime minister to Parliament was drawn up explaining why. It stated that the Act was "out of harmony with modern conditions".</b></div>
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<b>The statement also drew on some devastating criticism of the Act by the Lord Chancellor Lord Kilmuir, who as David Maxwell Fyfe had been a barrister and Home Secretary. In a scrawled letter to Eden in September 1955 he stated his view that the Act probably did not even apply to Princess Margaret because of its contradictory drafting. He wrote: "This Act has no pride of ancestry, is badly drawn and uncertain and embarrassing in its effect."</b></div>
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<b>Kilmuir added: "I think that at least 75% of the electorate would be in favour of the marriage being somehow allowed."</b></div>
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<b>That helps to explain why the government was so receptive to the plan for the princess to marry.</b></div>
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<b>But when she met Townsend in October, she, or he, decided against the marriage.</b></div>
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<b>And yet the image remains in the public imagination of a cornered monarch, a hostile </b></div>
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