A future prime minister John Turner and Britain's Princess Margaret may have "nearly married," according to a recently unearthed cache of letters written by the princess from 1950 to 1966.

Margaret, then 35 (hardly a “little Princess”), was met by several hundred San Franciscans and Mayor John F. Shelley and his wife, who offered up roses and “attempted a small curtsy.” ...

The letters, provided to CBC News by Andrew Pierce of the Daily Mail newspaper, were written to Margaret's lifelong friend, American socialite Sharman Douglas. "John Turner is here & we meet on ...