The Crown

[Barsel]

Have only just started watching this, so I've just come to the end of the first series when Princess Margaret was told she couldn't marry Group Captain Townsend because of all the rules and regulations of him being divorced. How come the Prince of Wales, a future King, was allowed to marry Camilla Parker Bowles? Have the rules been changed.? I seem to remember that Princess Anne married for the second time in Scotland and yet Charles and Camilla married here.

[Ken4155]

Not absolutely sure, Barsel, but i do remember reading it all has something to do with the European Convention Of Human Rights. Bit too late for poor Margaret, unfortunately.

[woofgang]

Barsel, it was never a rule, just "not done"

[Peter Pedant]

fudge actually
and being royal it doesnt really matter what the law is

RThe Queen inter alia went from head of the church to surpeme governot around the time. And indeed it is the Supremacy Act 1536 that caused all this

Henry VIII was no shirker from divorce if you recall.

" Watch Charles and Camilla's 2005 wedding and their blessing in Windsor Castle."
did they get wed in the local registry office and then get blessed

oh and windsor is a royal peculiar = so the Queen can directly permit things without going up or down a hierachy

which is what she did for Harry and That Woman who has 2 other husbands still living....

[Peter Pedant]

they were far more worried what an action replay of Edward VIII wd do which is political and not religious

1936 - the archbish just said - "the people of england just wont allow it"

[Barsel]

PP I forgot about Harry although I think his wife was only divorced once. It wasn't the people who wouldn't allow Margaret to marry, they were all for it, it was the government some of who were divorced themselves.

[emmie]

the royal family surely didn;t want Princess Margaret to Marry Townsend?

[Barsel]

Emmie maybe not, because he was a commoner, but others have gone on to marry commoners and I think the Queen probably did want Margaret to be happy.

[emmie]

that was then, we have supposedly moved on since that time

[emmie]

Townsend, a hero in World War II, was a commoner, 16 years older than the princess, and he'd been divorced. Because of the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, Margaret needed the queen's permission to marry. But Elizabeth and her advisors didn't want to sanction a marriage between a divorced man and a member of the royal family.

[emmie]

from a source other than wiki...

[bednobs]

there is nothing saying she would have been any happier marrying him than anyone else. Perhaps she was just destined to be unhappy in love. Wasn't the earl of Snowdon acommoner too?

[emmie]

i just posted a link, she could have been happy with Townsend but its obvious the powers that be The Queen included thought it a divorced man was a step too far.

[bednobs]

I didn't see a link?

[emmie]

then a copied piece from a news source. as per 17.37

[bednobs]

what news source?
I would have thought that no-one except the queen knows how the queen felt about it?

[emmie]

i am merely posting what i saw, its unlikley that i could find the same one twice. He was a divorced man, it was frowned upon in many circles not just royal ones.

[tiggerblue10]

I just think times and certain protocols have changed. Royals much more freedom now than 30+ years ago. Margarets life was quite sad.

[emmie]

Wouldn't she have had to renounce titles and sundry by marrying Townsend. Perhaps she didn;t want to do that

[emmie]

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-real-reason-princess-margaret-ended-her-engagement-to-peter-townsend.html/

[Peter Pedant]

let us recall that the cRown is not a documentary

Saturday Night Live lampooned Bellona Bellatrix for reminding people she wasnt Princess Margaret
nonetheless half the American population ( the half that support Truump) think that she is