10-07-2007 13:00
A man claiming to be the love child of Britain's late Princess Margaret has changed his mind about who his father was.
Robert Brown - who lost his court appeal to gain access to the princess' will last week - had claimed he was the illegitimate child of Queen Elizabeth's younger sister Margaret and her lover Group Captain Peter Townsend.
However, he now believes he is the product of Margaret's affair with society pianist Robin Douglas-Home, who committed suicide 1968.
Brown, 52, told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper: "I was born in January 1955 and the date tallies with Margaret's friendship with Douglas-Home.
"Everyone says I am the spitting image of him."
Brown, who was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1955, went to London's High Court to overturn a 1911 ruling exempting the British Royal Family from the normal rules governing public inspection of estates.
He believed the wills of Margaret, who died in 2002 aged 71, and the late Queen Mother may contain references to him which will prove his case and secure his inheritance rights to part of a reported £7.5 million fortune.
More about Princess Margaret's 'love child' mystery on page 2
Your Comments:
Be the first to comment!