Re: Peter Phillips Bride To Be Converts To CofE

"William Reitwiesner" <wmaddams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:wmaddams-D44855.06573315052008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <7118-482B9569-4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
carsten1@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

If someone marries a papist, as the aforesaid lutheran princess did, and
the marriage is anulled, (as it seems her marriage might have been)
meaning that it never truly existed, do they regain their place in the
succession? Say there is a great plague. Most of the people in line are
wiped out. The throne goes to a german who never thought he would
possibly be king. His daddy is still alive, but daddys second wife is a
papist, so he misses out. Then daddy gets the marriage anulled. Does the
throne pass from son to father? (Of course if it did, in legal theory
the son would never have been king, just as in legal theory his daddy
had never married the papist)

Nobody knows, because the meaning(s) of the disqualifying phrases in the
Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement have never been used to exclude
someone from succeeding to the Throne.

Though I suppose that one might gain some information from cases
where e.g a will had made inheritance conditional on not marrying
someone of a certain religion.

BTW, if a Roman Catholic man goes through a marriage ceremony
which is later annulled, can he be ordained as a priest? If so, has it
ever happened?
--
"Write nothing with thy hand but that which thou wilt be pleased to see at
the resurrection"
Prayer at the end of a Coptic-Arabic manuscript of the gospels


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