Wedding Protocol For Divorcees

[crossing]

Why did the queen refuse to attend Charles and Camillas wedding but did attend divorcee Megans wedding?

[dannyk13]

^for Baths^

[Guilbert53]

Times certainly have changed.

Somebody mentioned on TV the other day (The One Show?) that when the Queen's garden parties first started you could not go if you were divorced.

[jno]

my thought was the same as anne's. There was an element of home-wrecking with Charles and Camilla that hasn't been the case with Harry and Meghan.

I see the royal butler - or the Daily Express - thinks Henry VIII married VIII times. Obviously a reliable source of information.

[hc4361]

I don't think the bride should signal she is not a virgin by not wearing white whilst the groom can keep his secrets.

[jno]

hc4361, I remember one of the American agony aunts, Ann Landers maybe, answering a similar question by saying white is a symbol of virginity, not an adertisement.

[Hopkirk]

Perhaps she just doesn't like Camilla

[Bathsheba]

@Danny, thanks, but can't open link :(
~Baths~

[dannyk13]

Baths, I meant the post at 11.21.:-)

[Bathsheba]

No antipathy at all Danny, just thought what she wore was daft.
~Baths~

[Barmaid]

Yeah. As a former divorcee who has been living in sin she should have worn bright red. As I shall.

[Cloverjo]

Well, I'm not married but if I were to become hitched I'd wear white. Or maybe cream so as not to upset anyone ;)

[Jackdaw33]

I remember a term from my youth, when divorce was frowned upon, as 'Legally separated', still married but no longer living together. Does such a status still exist?

[Bazile]

While we're on about 'colours '
Why was the car she arrived in black and not white?

[Cloverjo]

I think so, jackdaw. You read in the papers still of people being 'legally separated'. At a guess I'd say one party doesn't want a divorce because the man (or woman) would otherwise be free to marry the other woman (or man).

[Cloverjo]

White cars are a bit naff, bazile.

[Barmaid]

I think it's a judicial separation , jackdaw

[Bazile]

Really cloverjo ?
What about white dresses ?

[follyfancier]

the Rolls Royce Phantom IV is Royal Claret not Black

[jourdain2]

A friend of mine's daughter wore purple and black! Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please, but I thought that white only became the norm during Victoria's reign.

As for the Queen not attending the civil marriage bit of Charles & Camilla - well, she is the head of the Church of England and Camilla was not only a divorcee but also an R.C. (I don't know if she has changed sides, someone will enlighten me) which was verboten.

I've been thinking about a church marriage for Mr J2 and I. His first wife, whom he married in church, has eventually died (aged 87) and I've not had a church wedding (civil service, so doesn't count, religiously). I've worked out that we are both now free to marry in church; now the problem is how to do it without fuss! :)