ROYALS IN SHOCK! THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES CAN’T GET A DIVORCE!
William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, are unable to divorce. If the Prince and Princess of Wales ever decide to file for divorce, they are unlikely to succeed.
Experts revealed that years ago, the late Queen Elizabeth II approved one particular law that prohibits Prince William and Princess Catherine from even allowing the thought of divorce. Moreover, this rule applies not only to King Charles III’s eldest son, but also to the youngest, Prince Harry. This happened after the failed marriages of the children of Elizabeth II. Recall that the monarch’s sister Princess Margaret filed for divorce from Lord Snowdon in the 1970s, and the split in the relationship between Prince Charles and Princess Diana was generally considered a universal disaster. The separation of the late Queen’s son Prince Andrew and his wife Sarah Ferguson in 1996 also made a lot of noise in the British media. By the way, divorce could not avoid and daughter of Elizabeth II – Princess Anne: she cancelled her first marriage to Captain Mark Phillips in 1992.
After that, Her Late Majesty was serious about the institution of marriage in the royal family and also wanted to curb the prospect of more divorces in the family. The Queen was the head of the church, so she opposed divorce in the monarchial family on principle. According to the royal family, Elizabeth II witnessed the divorces not only of her sister Princess Margaret, but also of her three older children. The late monarch felt it was necessary to bluntly tell people who wanted to break off relationships that it was time to stop. The Queen was adamant that there would be no more royal divorces during her reign.
It turns out that the late Queen personally had a conversation with her grandchildren, because they are supposed to continue the legacy of the monarchy. They are supposed to be an example of reliability and stability, which is why Princess Catherine and Meghan Markle are not allowed to file for divorce from their spouses. Prince Harry must prove that he made the right choice and keep his relationship with his wife. As for Prince William and Princess Catherine, they should not allow any thought of their separation at all. People love the Prince and Princess of Wales, because it is they who are destined to become the rulers of Great Britain in the future.
Ironically, the roots of that position—and the Church of England itself—lie in the inability of Henry VIII to annul his marriage with the blessing of the Catholic Church. In the 1530s, Henry decided he wanted an annulment after Catherine of Aragon failed to give birth to a male heir. When the pope repeatedly refused to grant his request, Henry first limited the Church’s influence in England, then formally severed ties to Catholicism in 1534.
This break from the Roman Catholic Church meant that the British monarch, not the pope, was the official head of the church in Britain. Since then, monarchs have pledged to uphold the religious tenets of the Church of England at their coronations. Within the royal family, it became nearly impossible to divorce or marry someone whose previous marriage had ended.
After that, divorce became almost a way of life for the Windsors. In 1953, Princess Margaret flirted with marrying Peter Townsend, a divorced war hero. Ultimately, she abandoned the relationship, possibly because she would have had to give up her ability to succeed to the throne. Soon, Margaret herself was a divorcee, and three of Elizabeth II’s four children divorced, too. In 1992, Princess Anne remarried in Scotland, whose church does not consider marriage a sacrament, and sidestepped the Church of England’s restriction on divorcees remarrying.
Now, says Chernock, divorce is “more the norm than the exception,” at least for the current members of the royal family. “It would be somewhat hypocritical at this point [for them] to invoke the old standard,” she says.
Since 2002, the Church of England has allowed the remarriage of divorced persons in certain special circumstances. Regardless of what the Church of England does, says Chernock, expect future monarchs to be more laid back about divorce. “Given the increasingly lax nature of expectations around questions of divorce, the sovereign will be much more sympathetic and flexible in the future,” she says. “I can’t imagine the next generation using that tradition in some kind of personal, cruel way.”
