In Real Life, Margaret seems to have been dissuaded from marrying Townsend not only because she would lose her royal position and status, but also because of her genuine religious faith. In the statement she gave explaining her decision, she specifically mentioned that "the Church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble".
That was in a speech made to the public. She
had to say that. She couldn't very well say that she would marry if not for the Church's insistence that marriage is indissoluble, because by saying that she would place herself at odds with the Church which would be about as big a scandal as if she had eloped. Publicly, she could not lay the blame on either the royal family or the Church - she had to refer to her conscience, whether true or not.
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