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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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