Season one of Netflix’s big-budget royal series, The Crown, dug into Princess Margaret’s affair with Peter Townsend, a commoner and married man who was more than a decade older than the queen’s sister. After realizing, during the first season, that marriage to Townsend would require her to surrender her royal income, renounce her claim to the throne and leave England for at least five years, Margaret put her feelings aside and, according to TIME’s 2002 obituary of the princess, “rebounded smartly” from the ordeal. However, episode seven of The Crown‘s second season shows Margaret, who is portrayed by Vanessa Kirby, overcome with emotion after receiving a letter from Townsend informing her that he has decided to ask a 19-year-old woman named Marie-Luce Jamagne to marry him.