OBJECTIONS
Nine people submitted formal objections
to the marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla
Parker Bowles. The details have been sent to the
office of the Registrar General who will decide
whether they are valid. No certificate of
marriage can be issued until all objections have
been dealt with.
Those who are opposed to the marriage can seek a
judicial review in the High Court if the
Registrar General does not deem their objections
to be valid. The objections, which are formally
known as caveats, were lodged at the local
registry offices at Chippenham and Cirencester
where the couple have their homes. |
CAMERAS
BANNED
Prince Charles banned cameras and mobile
phones from his wedding. He laid down the law to
800 guests after snatched camera phone shots were
published of Prince Harry in a Nazi uniform.
Guests will be forced to submit to potentially
humiliating searches as they arrive at Windsor
Castle and police and security will be briefed to
confiscate phones and cameras. Charles is
believed to be considering selling official
pictures and film footage of the ceremony to the
media, with the profits going to the prince's
charities. He doesn't mind international media
coverage then? |
HEAD
OF STATE
Some of the sovereign countries who have
the monarch as Head of State ‘want
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ROYAL WEDDING FARCE
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 The build-up to the wedding has
been anything but low key, with logistical problems and
the resulting publicity leaving all the arrangements -
and the legitimacy of the service itself, open to
scrutiny.
February 10 - Immediately after the
engagement announcement, Clarence House was forced into
making constitutional decisions regarding Mrs Parker
Bowles' future title. It was eventually decided that she
would never be Queen but would become HRH the Duchess of
Cornwall when she weds Charles and will be known as the
Princess Consort when he eventually becomes King.
February 11 - Aides confirmed that
details and arrangements had yet to be finalised for the
ceremony, leaving some commentators to wonder why such
vital decisions had been left to the last minute.
February 13 - Charles and Camilla took a
trip down the aisle, but only in preparation for the big
day. The couple joined a congregation of just 34 people
in the picturesque St Lawrence's Church in Didmarton,
Glos, where they heard a sermon on the Devil's temptation
of Christ.
February 14 - Clarence House was forced
to issue a statement rejecting claims that the civil
marriage between the Prince and Mrs Parker Bowles would
not be legal. A spokesman said, "Legal advice was
taken from four different sources and all agreed that it
is legal for a member of the Royal Family to marry in a
civil ceremony in England." Former Attorney-General
Nicholas Lyell suggested emergency legislation might be
needed to clarify the legal position before the big day.
Otherwise, the couple might have to get married in
Scotland, as the Princess Royal did when she wed for the
second time in 1992. Downing Street dismissed the claims,
made in a BBC Panorama documentary, that legislation
would be needed to allow the Prince and Mrs Parker Bowles
to be married in a civil ceremony.
February 17 - The couple's original
plan, to marry in a civil service at St George's Chapel
in the grounds of Windsor Castle, was scuppered by
licensing laws which would have made the venue
"regularly available" for the next three years
to any commoners who wanted to marry there.
February 18 - The couple's second-choice
venue, Windsor's Guildhall, was then found to offer royal
watchers the chance to exercise their legal rights to
sit, free of charge, in the public gallery for the
occasion, wrecking any hopes of keeping the royal wedding
a totally private affair. In addition, Charles was faced
with having to rethink his guest list, which was reported
to include some 700 names, as the largest room in the
Guildhall can only hold 100 people.
February 22 - Charles will have no best
man at the ceremony, his household announced. Heirs to
the throne are usually accompanied by two
"supporters", the royal term for best man, when
they wed, and it had been speculated that Princes William
and Harry would perform the role. But Clarence House said
Charles will not follow this tradition.
February 23 - The palace confirms that
the Queen will not attend the civil marriage service, but
will attend the dedication service at St George's Chapel
in Windsor Castle.
(Source: Mail on Sunday)
A Labour MP accused the Prince of Wales of
being "less than frank with the country" over
his marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles. His comments
follow confirmation from the Department for
Constitutional Affairs that she would become Queen when
Charles succeeds to the throne. Charles previously
announced Camilla would be Princess Consort, not Queen,
but Thurrock MP Andrew McKinlay said new legislation
would be needed to stop her having the rights of a Queen.
Constitutional Affairs Minister Christopher Leslie
confirmed her future status when questioned in the
Commons.
The Labour MP asked Mr Leslie if the marriage was
"morganatic", a term which would mean that Mrs
Parker Bowles would automatically not inherit the title
of queen. Mr Leslie said that it was not a morganatic
marriage. Government sources have said that legislation
would be needed to "comply with her wishes not to
become queen". Mr Mackinlay said legislation would
be needed in 17 parliaments around the world, where the
British monarch is head of state, for the change to be
made.
Mr Mackinlay said such a legislation change
"shouldn't be done for one man and one man
alone". He added that the Government may fear that
asking parliaments in countries such as Canada, New
Zealand and Australia for a change in legislation could
stir up republican sentiments there. Mr Mackinlay said,
"Prince Charles has been less than frank with the
country, he knows that it was established in 1936 that
the King's spouse automatically becomes Queen unless
there is a law passed to the contrary."
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