News from the New York Times:
LONDON (AP) — Prince Charles is to marry his partner Camilla Parker Bowles, the prince’s office said Thursday.
Clarence
House didn’t immediately announce further details, but Sky News TV
reported that the heir to the throne would marry on April 6.
Charles
was previously married to Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in
Paris in 1997. She was divorced from Charles when she died.
The marriage is a sensitive issue because Parker Bowles is divorced
and her former husband is still alive. Charles would be the supreme
governor of the Church of England if he took the throne, and some
Anglicans remain opposed to the remarriage of divorcees.
The
church is officially neutral on the issue, but former Archbishop of
Canterbury George Carey recently urged the couple to marry.
Last
year, a poll indicated that more Britons support Prince Charles
marrying Camilla Parker Bowles than oppose it. Thirty-two percent of
respondents to the Populus poll said they would support Charles if he
remarried, while 29 percent were opposed. Thirty-eight percent said
they didn’t care and 2 percent had no opinion.
So, Queen Camilla anyone?
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