PRIVATE LIFE OF PRINCESS

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27795, 21 October 1955, Page 12

PRIVATE LIFE OF PRINCESS

Newspaper Stories Deplored WINTON COUNCIL WRITES TO EDITORS (New Zealand. Press Association) INVERCARGILL, October 20. The Winton Borough Council has written to the editors of Southland newspapers advising them that it strongly disapproves of the publication in detail of the private affairs of Princess Margaret and Group Captain Townsend. The council’s letter begins by saying that “as local authorities have always played an active part in honouring members of the Royal Family, the matter of publication of the private affairs of Princess Margaret was discussed at length by the council.” The letter gives the text of the council’s resolution and concludes: “It was considered that even without a request from Clarence House to respect their privacy, such matters in connexion with a member of the Royal Family should in common decency not be published.”

The full text of the resolution is: “That in view of the demonstration of loyalty shown by the people of this Dominion when Her Majesty the Queen visited New Zealand, and the respect always shown to members of the Royal Family, that the editors of the Southland newspapers be advised of the council’s strong disapproval of their publishing in detail the private affairs of Princess Margaret and Group Captain Townsend.”