The usual suspects are coming out of the woodwork:
More than a quarter of the General Synod’s members are thought to be
uneasy that the Church’s next supreme governor – a title that the
prince will inherit if he becomes King – will be a remarried divorcé.
You would think that members of the General Synod, those who, presumably, have a passing acquaintance with Canon Law, could actually get this right. Charles is not a divorce (can’t get that accent). Yes, he was indeed divorced, but Diana is now dead, pushing up the daisies, and that makes him a widower. There are no more restrictions on who he may marry than there are on any other single male (wel, apart from the Royal Marriages Act and so on).
You can argue that the original divorce means he cannot inherit the Throne, that Camilla’s Catholicism means he cannot, that her divorced status means he cannot, that you don’t like him, or her, that nothing should be done that blemishes the aura around St Diana, but you cannot state that he should not get to be King because he is a remarried divorce because he isn’t. Good Grief, even the Catholic Church, which doesn’t recognise divorce at all, would say he is free to marry because he is, as above, a widower.
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