Royal Marriages Act 1772
Territorial extent | England and Wales; Scotland |
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Dates | |
Royal assent | 1 April 1772 |
Other legislation | |
Amended by | Criminal Law Act 1967 |
Repealed by | Succession to the Crown Act 2013[2] |
Status: Repealed | |
Text of statute as originally enacted | |
Revised text of statute as amended |
The Royal Marriages Act 1772 (
It was repealed as a result of the 2011 Perth Agreement, which came into force on 26 March 2015. Under the Succession to the Crown Act 2013, the first six people in the line of succession need permission to marry if they and their descendants are to remain in the line of succession.
Provisions
The Act said that no descendant of
However, any member of the royal family over the age of 25 who had been refused the sovereign's consent could marry one year after giving notice to the
The Act further made it a crime to perform or participate in an
Rationale
The Act was proposed by
Couples affected
- On 15 December 1785, the King's eldest son Maria Anne Fitzherbert, a practising Catholic, at her house in Park Lane, London, according to the rites of the Church of England. This marriage was invalid under the Act. Had the marriage been valid, it would have excluded the Prince from succession to the throne under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, and made his brother Prince Frederick, Duke of York, the heir-apparent.
- On 29 September 1791, the King's second son Prince Frederick, Duke of York, married Privy Council on 28 September, it had proved impossible to obtain the Great Seal in time and doubt had thus been thrown on the legality of the marriage.[9]
- On 4 April 1793, Court of Arches on 14 July 1794, and the two resulting children were subsequently considered illegitimate.[10]
- After the death of Lady Augusta Murray, Duchess of Inverness by Queen Victoria (the Duke being Earl of Inverness). The Queen had thereby, as Lord Melbourne wrote, "recognized the moral and religious effect of whatever has taken place whilst she avoided the legal effects of a legal marriage which was what her Majesty was most anxious to do".[11]Acceptance of the marriage would have meant acceptance of the Duke's earlier marriage and the legitimacy of his two children. However, the couple cohabited and were socially accepted as husband and wife.
- On 8 January 1847, the Queen's first cousin St James, Clerkenwell. From about 1858, Fairbrother took the name Mrs FitzGeorge. The marriage was invalid, not a morganatic marriage as many have called it.[12] It is also incorrect to say that Queen Victoria refused to consent to this marriage, as no application was made to her under the Act,[13]it being very apparent that no consent would be given.
- After Charles Edward, Duke of Albany was deprived of his British titles under the Titles Deprivation Act 1917 due to his German loyalties during World War I, his descendants married without consent from the British monarch (the earliest in 1932[citation needed]). As Charles Edward was a male-line grandson of Queen Victoria, application of the Royal Marriages Act as written renders null and void for the purposes of British law the marriages of his children, despite having been lawfully contracted in Germany.[a]
- The only known case in which permission to marry was withheld by the British sovereign despite a formal request under the Royal Marriages Act is that of Prince George William of Hanover, a German citizen descended from King George III, whose father and grandfather were deprived of their British titles under the Titles Deprivation Act 1917 due to their German loyalties during World War I. On 23 April 1946, George William married Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, who was about to become a kinswoman to the British royal family as her brother Prince Philip was courting the future Queen Elizabeth II. Their request for permission from King George VI received no response due to sensitivity over the fact that a state of war still existed between the United Kingdom and Germany,[b] and it was held by British officials at the time that the marriage and its issue would not be legitimate in the United Kingdom despite being legal in Germany.[14]
Broad effects
The Act rendered void any marriage wherever contracted or solemnised in contravention of it. A member of the royal family who contracted a marriage that violated the Act did not thereby lose his or her place in the line of succession,
The Act applied to Catholics, even though they are ineligible to succeed to the throne.[8] It did not apply to descendants of Sophia of Hanover who are not also descendants of George II, even though they are still eligible to succeed to the throne.
It had been claimed that the marriage of
All European monarchies, and many non-European realms, have laws or traditions requiring prior approval of the monarch for members of the reigning dynasty to marry. But Britain's was unusual because it was never modified between its original enactment and its repeal 243 years later, so that its ambit grew rather wide, affecting not only the British royal family, but more distant relatives of the monarch.
Farran exemption
In the 1950s, Charles d'Olivier Farran, Lecturer in Constitutional Law at Liverpool University, theorised that the Act could no longer apply to anyone living, because all the members of the immediate royal family were descended from British princesses who had married into foreign families. The loophole is due to the Act's wording, whereby if a person is, through one line, a descendant of George II subject to the Act's restriction, but is also, separately through another line, a descendant of a British princess married into a foreign family, the exemption for the latter reads as if it trumps the former.[16]
Many of George II's descendants in female lines have married back into the British royal family. In particular,
This so-called "Farran exemption" met with wide publicity, but arguments against it were put forward by Clive Parry, Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge,[17] and Farran's interpretation has since been ignored.[18] Consent to marriages in the royal family (including the distantly related House of Hanover) continued to be sought and granted as if none of the agnatic descendants of George II were also his cognatic descendants.
Parry argued that the "Farran exemption" theory was complicated by the fact that all the
Exemption of the former Edward VIII
In 1936 the statute
Perth Agreement
In October 2011
The legislation in a number of Commonwealth realms repeals the Royal Marriages Act 1772 in its entirety. It was, in the United Kingdom, replaced by the
Other legislation
The
Consents for marriages under the Act
Consents under the Act were entered in the Books of the Privy Council but have not been published. In 1857 it became customary to publish them in the London Gazette and notices appear of consents given in Council at Courts held on the following dates. Not all consents were there and gaps in the list have been filled by reference to the Warrants for Royal Marriages in the Home Office papers (series HO 124) in The National Archives:[23]
Date | Applicant | Spouse | Gazetted |
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28 September 1791 | Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany | Princess Frederica of Prussia | "No. 13347". The London Gazette. 27 September 1791. p. 541. HO124/1. |
17 December 1794 | George, Prince of Wales |
Princess Caroline Amelia of Brunswick | not gazetted; HO124/2. |
3 May 1797 | Charlotte, Princess Royal | Frederic, Hereditary Prince of Württemberg | not gazetted; HO124/3. |
15 August 1814 | Prince Ernest, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale | Frederica, Dowager Princess of Solms | not gazetted; HO124/4. |
9 March 1816 | Princess Charlotte Augusta |
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld | not gazetted; HO124/5. |
2 April 1816 | Princess Mary | Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh | not gazetted; HO124/7 |
8 June 1816 | Princess Elizabeth | Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg | not gazetted; HO124/6. |
22 April 1818 | Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge | Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel | not gazetted; HO124/8. |
11 May 1818 | Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn | Viktoria, Dowager Princess of Leiningen | not gazetted; HO124/9. |
7 July 1818 | Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews | Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen | not gazetted; HO124/10. |
13 June 1842 | George, Crown Prince of Hanover | Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg | copy in HO45/8927. |
2 November 1842 | Princess Augusta of Cambridge | Friedrich, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg |
HO124/11. |
16 May 1857 | Victoria, Princess Royal | Prince Frederick of Prussia | "No. 22003". The London Gazette. 19 May 1857. p. 1768. |
30 April 1861 | Princess Alice | Prince Ludwig of Hesse | "No. 22507". The London Gazette. 3 May 1861. p. 1889. |
1 November 1862 | Albert Edward, Prince of Wales | Princess Alexandra of Denmark | "No. 22677". The London Gazette. 4 November 1862. p. 5201. |
5 December 1865 | Princess Helena | Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein | "No. 23046". The London Gazette. 5 December 1865. p. 6451. |
19 May 1866 | Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge | Francis, Prince of Teck | "No. 23118". The London Gazette. 22 May 1866. p. 3065. |
24 October 1870 | Princess Louise | John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne | "No. 23682". The London Gazette. 25 November 1870. p. 5215., in substitution of "No. 23671". The London Gazette. 25 October 1870. p. 4593. |
17 July 1873 | Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh | Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia | "No. 24000". The London Gazette. 22 July 1873. p. 3449. in substitution of "No. 23999". The London Gazette. 18 July 1873. p. 3379. |
16 May 1878 | Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn | Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia | "No. 24583". The London Gazette. 21 May 1878. p. 3161. HO124/17. |
27 November 1878 | Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover | Princess Thyra of Denmark | "No. 24653". The London Gazette. 6 December 1878. p. 6987. |
18 March 1880 | Princess Frederica of Hanover | Baron Alfons von Pawel-Rammingen |
"No. 24824". The London Gazette. 19 March 1880. p. 2133. HO124/19. |
29 November 1881 | Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont |
"No. 25043". The London Gazette. 29 November 1881. p. 6459. "No. 25044". The London Gazette. 2 December 1881. p. 6463. |
27 January 1885 | Princess Beatrice | Prince Henry of Battenberg | "No. 25436". The London Gazette. 27 January 1885. p. 357. |
5 July 1889 | Princess Louise of Wales |
Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife | "No. 25953". The London Gazette. 12 July 1889. p. 3765. |
3 July 1891 | Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein | Prince Aribert of Anhalt | "No. 26179". The London Gazette. 3 July 1891. p. 3593. "No. 26180". The London Gazette. 7 July 1891. p. 3595. |
12 December 1891 | Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale | Princess Victoria Mary of Teck | "No. 26233". The London Gazette. 15 December 1891. p. 6911. He died before they could marry, and she later married his brother – see below |
28 June 1892 | Princess Marie of Edinburgh |
Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Romania |
"No. 26303". The London Gazette. 1 July 1892. p. 3784. |
16 May 1893 | Prince George, Duke of York | Princess Victoria Mary of Teck | "No. 26404". The London Gazette. 19 May 1893. p. 2897. |
29 January 1894 | Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse | "No. 26480". The London Gazette. 30 January 1894. p. 584. |
19 October 1894 | Prince Adolphus of Teck | The Lady Margaret Grosvenor | "No. 26562". The London Gazette. 19 October 1894. p. 5859. |
21 November 1895 | Princess Maud of Wales | Prince Carl of Denmark |
"No. 26692". The London Gazette. 24 December 1895. p. 7425., in substitution of consent dated 12 November 1895 published "No. 26691". The London Gazette. 20 December 1895. p. 7365. |
12 December 1895 | Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Ernst, Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg | "No. 26692". The London Gazette. 24 December 1895. p. 7425., in substitution of notice published "No. 26691". The London Gazette. 20 December 1895. p. 7365.; HO124/30. |
15 May 1900 | Princess Marie Louise of Hanover | Prince Maximilian of Baden | "No. 27203". The London Gazette. 19 June 1900. p. 3811. |
16 November 1903 | Princess Alice of Albany | Prince Alexander of Teck | "No. 27616". The London Gazette. 16 November 1903. p. 7013. "No. 27617". The London Gazette. 17 November 1903. p. 7015. |
7 March 1904 | Princess Alexandra of Hanover |
Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg |
"No. 27654". The London Gazette. 4 March 1904. p. 1517. "No. 27655". The London Gazette. 8 March 1904. p. 1521. |
27 February 1905 | Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein | "No. 27769". The London Gazette. 28 February 1905. p. 1493. |
20 March 1905 | Princess Margaret of Connaught | Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Scania |
"No. 27776". The London Gazette. 17 March 1905. p. 2167. "No. 27777". The London Gazette. 21 March 1905. p. 2169. |
17 March 1913 | Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover | Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia | "No. 28700". The London Gazette. 17 March 1913. p. 2053. |
12 August 1913 | Prince Arthur of Connaught | Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife | "No. 28745". The London Gazette. 12 August 1913. p. 5729. |
11 February 1919 | Princess Patricia of Connaught | Commander Alexander Ramsay | "No. 31174". The London Gazette. 11 February 1919. p. 2147. HO124/38 wanting, see C188/3 for Warrant for Royal Marriage. |
22 November 1921 | Princess Mary | Henry Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles | "No. 32529". The London Gazette. 25 November 1921. p. 9459. |
12 February 1923 | Prince Albert, Duke of York | The Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | "No. 32795". The London Gazette. 13 February 1923. p. 1063. |
26 June 1923 | Princess Maud of Fife |
Charles Carnegie, Lord Carnegie | "No. 32837". The London Gazette. 26 June 1923. p. 4417. |
7 October 1931 | The Lady May Cambridge | Captain Henry Abel Smith | "No. 33761". The London Gazette. 9 October 1931. p. 6451. |
5 October 1934 | The Prince George | Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark | "No. 34093". The London Gazette. 5 October 1934. p. 6241. |
3 October 1935 | Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester | The Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott | "No. 34204". The London Gazette. 4 October 1935. p. 6199. |
26 December 1937 | Frederica of Hanover | Prince Paul of Greece and Denmark | "No. 34468". The London Gazette. 31 December 1937. p. 8169. |
29 January 1941 | The Lady Iris Mountbatten | Hamilton Joseph Keyes O'Malley | not gazetted; HO124/46. |
31 July 1947 | Princess Elizabeth | Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten RN | "No. 38030". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 29 July 1947. p. 3589. |
28 July 1949 | George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood | Maria Stein | "No. 38677". The London Gazette. 29 July 1949. p. 3693. |
1 August 1951 | Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover |
Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg | not gazetted; HO124/49. |
27 June 1952 | Gerald Lascelles | Angela Dowding | "No. 39584". The London Gazette. 27 June 1952. p. 3517. |
1 June 1956 | James Carnegie, Lord Carnegie | Caroline Dewar |
"No. 40795". The London Gazette. 1 June 1956. p. 3227. |
19 August 1956 | Alexander Ramsay | Flora Fraser, Mistress of Saltoun | "No. 40860". The London Gazette. 21 August 1956. p. 4799. |
31 July 1957 | Anne Abel Smith | David Liddell-Grainger | "No. 41141". The London Gazette. 2 August 1957. p. 4563. |
14 September 1959 | Captain Richard Abel Smith | Marcia Kendrew | "No. 41816". The London Gazette. 15 September 1959. p. 5797. |
16 March 1960 | Princess Margaret | Antony Armstrong-Jones | "No. 41986". The London Gazette. 18 March 1960. p. 2025. |
3 August 1960 | Prince Welf Heinrich of Hanover | Princess Alexandra of Ysenburg and Budingen | not gazetted; HO124/55. |
24 March 1961 | Prince Edward, Duke of Kent | Katharine Worsley | "No. 42314". The London Gazette. 28 March 1961. p. 2345. |
19 December 1962 | Princess Alexandra of Kent | Angus Ogilvy | "No. 42864". The London Gazette. 21 December 1962. p. 9981. |
26 February 1965 | Elizabeth Abel Smith | Peter Wise | "No. 43590". The London Gazette. 2 March 1965. p. 2147. |
28 July 1967 | George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood | Patricia Tuckwell | "No. 44375". The London Gazette. 28 July 1967. p. 8327. |
4 February 1972 | Prince Richard of Gloucester | Birgitte van Deurs | "No. 45601". The London Gazette. 17 February 1972. p. 2005. |
29 March 1973 | James Lascelles | Fredericka Duhrssen | "No. 45947". The London Gazette. 6 April 1973. p. 4481. |
24 July 1973 | Princess Anne | Captain Mark Phillips | "No. 46036". The London Gazette. 26 July 1973. p. 8761. |
1 August 1979 | Prince Michael of Kent | Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz | not gazetted; HO124/62. |
15 November 1978 | Gerald Lascelles | Elizabeth Evelyn Collingwood | not gazetted; HO124/63 lost while on loan to government department. |
6 February 1979 | David Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles | Margaret Messenger |
"No. 47770". The London Gazette. 13 February 1979. p. 1994. |
26 June 1979 | Henry Lascelles | Alexandra Morton | "No. 47892". The London Gazette. 28 June 1979. p. 8129. |
13 February 1980 | Katharine Fraser, Mistress of Saltoun |
Captain Mark Nicholson | "No. 48099". The London Gazette. 18 February 1980. p. 2573. |
28 July 1980 | Katharine Abel Smith | Hubert Beaumont | "No. 48264". The London Gazette. 29 July 1980. p. 10715. |
27 March 1981 | Charles, Prince of Wales |
The Lady Diana Spencer | Records of the Privy Council Office[24] |
10 June 1981 | Prince Ernst August Georg of Brunswick-Luneburg |
Countess Monika zu Solms-Laubach | "No. 48638". The London Gazette. 12 June 1981. p. 7956. |
10 June 1981 | Prince Ernst August Albert of Hanover |
Chantal Hochuli | "No. 48638". The London Gazette. 12 June 1981. p. 7956. |
16 May 1986 | The Prince Andrew | Sarah Ferguson | "No. 50524". The London Gazette. 22 May 1986. p. 6909. "No. 50533". The London Gazette. 30 May 1986. p. 7279. |
10 February 1987 | David Carnegie, Earl Macduff |
Caroline Bunting | "No. 50833". The London Gazette. 13 February 1987. p. 1951. |
15 September 1987 | Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover |
Countess Ysabelle of Thurn and Valassina-Como-Vercelli | "No. 51069". The London Gazette. 23 September 1987. p. 11789. |
23 March 1988 | James Ogilvy | Julia Rawlinson | "No. 51318". The London Gazette. 26 April 1988. p. 4957. |
24 July 1990 | Alice Ramsay of Mar | David Ramsey | "No. 52252". The London Gazette. 23 August 1990. p. 13701. |
11 February 1992 | The Lady Helen Windsor | Timothy Taylor | "No. 52856". The London Gazette. 9 March 1992. p. 4173. |
11 December 1992 | Anne, Princess Royal | Commander Tim Laurence |
"No. 53133". The London Gazette. 11 December 1992. p. 20898. |
28 July 1993 | David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley |
Serena Stanhope |
"No. 53385". The London Gazette. 28 July 1993. p. 12599. |
22 June 1994 | The Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones | Daniel Chatto | "No. 53715". The London Gazette. 27 June 1994. p. 9221. |
13 April 1999 | The Prince Edward |
Sophie Rhys-Jones |
"No. 55474". The London Gazette. 4 May 1999. p. 4929. |
11 April 2001 | Lady Alexandra Carnegie | Mark Etherington | Privy Council Orders for 11 April 2001
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11 December 2001 | Charles Liddell-Grainger | Eugenie Campagne | Privy Council Orders for 11 December 2001
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17 April 2002 | Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster |
Claire Booth |
"No. 56545". Privy Council Orders for 17 April 2002
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10 December 2003 | Henry Lascelles | Fiona Wilmott | Privy Council Orders for 10 December 2003
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20 July 2004 | The Lady Davina Windsor |
Gary Lewis | Privy Council Orders for 20 July 2004
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2 March 2005 | Charles, Prince of Wales |
Camilla Parker Bowles |
Privy Council Orders for 2 March 2005
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10 October 2006 | Lord Nicholas Windsor | Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan | Privy Council Orders for 10 October 2006
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2 May 2007 | Amelia May Beaumont | Simon Peregrine Gauvain Murray | Privy Council Orders for 2 May 2007
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12 December 2007 | The Lady Rose Windsor |
George Edward Gilman | Privy Council Orders for 12 December 2007
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12 February 2008 | Emily Lascelles | Matthew Shard | Privy Council Orders for 12 February 2008
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9 April 2008 | Peter Phillips | Autumn Kelly | "No. 58674". Privy Council Orders for 9 April 2008
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9 October 2008 | Charles Montagu Liddell-Grainger | Martha Margaretha de Klerk | Privy Council Orders for 9 October 2008
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11 February 2009 | Benjamin George Lascelles | Carolina Velez | Privy Council Orders for 11 February 2009
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10 June 2009 | Lord Frederick Windsor | Sophie Winkleman | Privy Council Orders for 10 June 2009
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9 February 2011 | Prince William of Wales |
Catherine Middleton |
Privy Council Orders for 9 February 2011
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10 May 2011 | Zara Phillips |
Mike Tindall | Privy Council Orders for 10 May 2011
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10 May 2011 | Mark Lascelles | Judith Kilburn | Privy Council Orders for 10 May 2011
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12 December 2012 | Louise Nicolson | Charles Morshead | Privy Council Orders for 12 December 2012
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11 February 2014 | Edward Lascelles | Sophie Cartlidge | Privy Council Orders for 11 February 2014 |
11 February 2015 | Juliet Victoria Katharine Nicolson | Simon Alexander Rood | Privy Council Orders for 11 February 2015 |
See also
Notes
- ^ According to a Home Office memorandum on the matter, "All the descendants of a British prince require the consent, even if he has become a foreign Sovereign and his family have lived abroad for generations. Thus the Hanoverian Royal Family, who are descended from George III's son, the Duke of Cumberland, who succeeded to the throne of Hanover on the accession of Queen Victoria, have regularly obtained the King's consent to their marriages: in 1937 Princess Frederica of Hanover, great-great granddaughter of George III and 3rd cousin once removed of the King, asked his consent to her wedding with the Crown Prince of Greece. It seems absurd that the King's consent should be obtained for a purely foreign marriage of this kind; one can only suppose that as the marriage would not be valid in the British Dominions without it, the object is to secure the position of the issue as Princes or Princesses of Great Britain (which rank is much valued on the Continent) and possibly to retain their place in the line of succession to the British Throne. Obviously the absence of the Royal Consent required by British law could not affect the validity of a marriage contracted abroad so far as the law of the country of domicile of the parties is concerned. It should be noted here that the Act applies to all marriages in which one of the parties is a descendant of George II, whether contracted in Great Britain or abroad. See as to this the decision of the House of Lords, given after taking the opinion of the Judges, in the Sussex Peerage case (xi Clark and Finelly, 85 ff.)"[14]
- Foreign Office to the Foreign Adviser to the British Commander in Chief at Berlin: "The Duke of Brunswick has formally applied to The King by letter of March 22nd for the consent of His Majesty under the Act 12 Geo. III, cap. 11 to the marriage of his son Prince George William with Princess Sophia Dowager Princess of Hesse. The marriage is understood to be taking place on April 23rd. Please convey to the Duke an informal intimation that in view of the fact that a state of war still exists between Great Britain and Germany, His Majesty is advised that the case is not one in which it is practicable for His consent to be given in the manner contemplated by the Act."[15]
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- ^ "Section 3 – Succession to the Crown Act 2013". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
- ^ C. Grant Robertson, Select statutes, cases and documents to illustrate English constitutional history (4th edn. 1923) pp. 245–247
- ^ Lord Mackay of Clashfern, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, ed. Halsbury's Laws of England (4th edn. 1998), volume 21 (1), p. 21
- ^ Criminal Law Act 1967, Section 13 and Schedule 4.
- ^ "No. 11236". The London Gazette. 4 April 1772. p. 1.
- ^ Matthew Kilburn, William Henry, Prince, first duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743–1805), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2011
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- ^ A. Aspinall, ed., The later correspondence of George III, vol. 1 (1966) pp. 567–671. The statement in Michel Huberty, Alain Giraud, F. and B. Magdelaine, L'Allemagne Dynastique, vol. 3: Brunswick-Nassau-Schwarzbourg (1981) p. 146, that the first marriage was by procuration (or proxy) is incorrect.
- ^ This marriage, being invalid, was not morganatic as is frequently stated, e.g. by Michael Thornton, Royal Feud (1985) p. 161.
- ^ Mollie Gillen, Royal Duke (1976) p. 223.
- ^ e.g. Compton Mackenzie, The Windsor tapestry (1938) page 344; Michael Thornton, Royal Feud (1985) pp. 161–162, and many other authorities.
- ^ As stated in Brian Inglis, Abdication (1966) p. 265, and many other authorities.
- ^ The National Archives (UK)|TNA, HO45/25238, Royal Marriages.
- The National Archives (UK) LCO2/3371A.
- ^ Modern Law Review, volume 14 (1951) pp. 53–63;
- ^ in 'Further Considerations on the Prince of Hanover's Case' in International & Comparative Law Quarterly (1957) pp. 61 etc.
- ^ Farran replied to Mr Parry in Appendix I, 'The Royal Marriages Act Today', in Lucille Iremonger, Love and the Princesses (1958) pp. 275–280.
- ^ His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 (c.3), full text online at statutelaw.gov.uk
- ^ "David Cameron proposes changes to royal succession". BBC News. 12 October 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
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- ^ "Royal Succession Act 2013". Section 8, Act of 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
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- ^ Email from the Privy Council Office dated 11 January 2013: "We do not have any record available as to the omission of the consent in the London Gazette, but I can confirm that consent was given by Her Majesty in Council on 27th March 1981."