[SlowBoat407]

Lets get to the brass tacks, he has lived in sin, how is the church going to allow them to marry in the Church, would it be blessed by the church?

In a way, that was the whole reason the C of E was founded in the first place, so that the King could do the things he was not allowed to do under the Catholic Church.

[mewzilla]

It's going to be a civil service anyway. Not a religious ceremony. Though the Archbishop of Canterburyt will be permitted to say a few words at the end.