the royal family?

Question

Is it true that the a monarch or prince of wales is not allowed to marry a divorced woman and that she should be a virgin, if this is true why was Charles allowed to marry Camilla recently but not allowed to marry her in the 1970's when he met her.

Answer 1

Charles didn't marry Camilla back in the 70's for several reasons. The main one is that Camilla's bloodline wasn't grand enough and all thoughts were for a great dynastic match. Second, Camilla's past wasn't clean enough to marry Prince Charles, as the monarchy felt that the ex-boyfriends of a future Queen spouting about their "escapades" " with her could damage the image of the Monarchy. Third, at the time she was near to marrying Captain Andrew Parker Bowles. It is said that at this time, Camilla was more attracted to Andrew than to Charles. The "Palace" line is that he was going away to 2 years at sea with the Navy and didn't want Camilla to wait for him.

English Monarchs can be divorced as King Henry VIII divorced his first wife because she couldn't give him a son, and married his second wife before and after the legal divorce.

King Edward VIII gave up his throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson who was a twice divorced American. The "Palace" line is that he abdicated because Queen Mary, (his mother), and Parliament felt he couldn't marry someone who had been divorced twice and still be Defender Of The Faith. Historically, both Neville Chamberlain (Prime Minister at the time) and Winston Churchill were deeply concerned about his Nazi leanings. Being VERY German, and coming from a family whose roots were German, (Queen Victoria's husband was German), the British Royals had a very close relations with the German nation. It is said that Hitler once said that when he won the war he was going to make David the King Of England again. The record bears out this information, and David and Wallis were sent to the Bahamas where he was Royal Governor, to get him out of Europe, as the British Foreign Office suspected he was leaking secrets to the Germans out of his house in Paris, where he had been exiled.

Now alot of things have changed, and people would more readily accept Camilla. Also, they say that the Queen felt it was high time that Charles make an honest woman out of his mistress. As for Charles being Defender of the Faith when he is King, he has always said he wants to be "Defender of the Faiths"

Answer 2

It was part of the constitution that a Monarch should not marry a divorcee or a catholic.
If a royal wanted to marry as such it would have had to be a morganatic marriage where the spouse had no royal rights, or they woud have to give up their HRH.
Camilla was in love with Parker Bowles but had a affair with Charles as Parker Bowles was seeing Princess Anne. Later she got her Man, but continued friendship with Charles.
Charles was only allowed to marry Camilla recently because the law has changed with the advent of the Human Rights Act which says anyone should be allowed to marry, no matter who they are. However it had to be a civil marriage as divorced people cannot be married in the church of England ( though the marriage was blessed in church). There are those in the church who are prepared to stand up and be counted however if Charles is becomes King and expects to make Camilla his Queen as it goes against the constitutional position as head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith.
Charles declaration that he would like to be Defender of Faiths hs been rejected as unconstitutional and unrealistic.

Answer 3

The reason being is in the seventies that was what had always been. So Charles had to marry a virgin and someone never married let alone divorced. But the queen makes her own rules and decided that Charles was going to be with horseface Camilla anyway so she just made an exception,allowing Charles to divorce,and remarry a divorced woman,who was definitely not a virgin. She also made an exception when she allowed Fergie and Andrew to divorce. Its amazing,how the exceptions were made for her family,also for her sister and I think even her daughter.

Answer 4

I believe it was allowed for an English monarch to marry a divorced woman. Queen Elizabeth II was in fact 2nd in line to the English throne after her uncle, King Edward VIII and her father King George VI. During her uncle's first month of reign as King of England, he proposed to an American divorcée Wallis Simpson. Legally King Edward could have married Mrs. Simpson and remained king, however, his various prime ministers opposed the marriage, arguing that the people would never accept her as queen, and if he did married her, they will resign. After much debate and reasoning, King Edward chose to abdicate, making him the only monarch of Britain to have voluntarily relinquished the throne. He is one of the shortest-reigning monarchs in British history, and was never crowned.
When Prince Charles first met Camilla at a polo match, she was not married, they were both in fact single. Prince Charles only married Lady Diana after Camilla married to Andrew Parker Bowles. But they always maintained a very close relationship throughout their marriages. The reasons as to why they did not marry when they first met at the polo match is unknown.

Answer 5

Maybe now that he has fathered the 2 boys and his 1st wife died they relaxed the rules. Who knows maybe Camilla had her virginity restored.

Answer 6

Interesting question. Maybe there aren't any virgins left?

Answer 7

You're getting mixed up,it's Catholics not divorced.