IT’S OFFICIAL! Queen FINALLY Releases HISTORIC Document Approving Royal Wedding
13th May 2018
You can almost hear the sighs of relief from the readers of the Daily Mail, which publication has no real equivalent in the U.S. — think of the bastard child of People magazine and the National Enquirer.
Interestingly enough, I learned recently that the heirs of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha have neglected to get the British monarch’s permission to marry since the last child of Duke Carl Eduard died, which makes their marriages invalid under British law, and so there is nobody now qualified to apply for reinstatement of the Dukedom of Albany (of which they were deprived under the Titles Deprivation Act for fighting for Germany against Britain in World War I). So that title is technically extinct under British law and would be available for Prince Harry and his squeeze when they get married, if they don’t do the expected thing and get made Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Oddly enough, the heirs to the crown of Hannover have been very conscientious about getting British royal permission to marry, most recently for the marriage of the current pretender Prince Ernest Augustus to a princess of Monaco (although he loses his right to the British throne for marrying a Roman Catholic).
In any event, it’s a very spiff-looking document; the British are always good about that sort of thing.