God Save the Queen! God Save the Future King!
Regards, Ivan
Posted on 02/21/2005 2:39:27 AM PST by MadIvan
Arrangements for the marriage of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles were plunged into chaos today after claims that members of the public will have the right to attend the ceremony.
The confusion surrounding the wedding deepened when it emerged that ceremonies held in approved civil venues must be "solemnised in premises with open doors".
That could raise security dangers for the royal family and the royal protection squad has now found itself at loggerheads with lawyers over the arrangements.
The prince has already been forced to abandon plans to marry Mrs Parker Bowles at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle after aides realised applying for a licence would have allowed members of the public to use the venue for marriages.
The ceremony - planned for 8 April - was subsequently moved to the town's Guildhall, but there are now fresh questions about the legality of barring the public from the wedding.
One former registrar said: "This could be a real problem. The law is the law and is very clear in this case. There is no ambiguity about it whatsoever." For their part the royal family's protection squad, SO14, are adamant that no member of the public will be allowed near any of the guests and that the venue will be treated as a secure area.
A source close to the squad said: "There is no way the public will be allowed anywhere near Prince Charles, Camilla and other members of the royal family."
A Clarence House spokesman said officials are "looking into the issue".
The latest development follows claims that royals are explicitly barred from marrying anywhere except in church under a section of the 1836 Marriage Act.
God Save the Queen! God Save the Future King!
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
You mean there are members of the general public who actually want to attend this wedding? Why?
Why don`t they have an ego fest filled marriage like Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones did at the Plaza hotel with the press and plastic surgery freaks then pose with their spawn splashed on every 2 bit rag for a buck?
Free fish and chips ?
I have no idea. I certainly don't want to go. The whole business leaves a sour taste because of the circumstances in which it has come to being. If Charles had met Camilla after Diana's death, I would be happy for the man. But as she was always the mistress, the whole affair is unseemly.
Regards, Ivan
Drats! Can't make it. Will send card instead.
Of course the most dignified approach would be a short Justice-of-the-Peace ceremony. No public, no fancy clothes, no photographers.
Maybe they should go to Vegas.
I would be in favour of that, complete with Charles and Camilla spending their wedding night in a hotel room that had a vibrating, heart-shaped bed.
Regards, Ivan
He already did that for his first wedding....
Maybe they will get married in an Episcopal Church here in the states. LOL!
It's pretty clear that Charles and Camilla's wedding caught everyone, including the Prime Minister, on the hop. No advice was possible under those circumstances. His own fault, really.
Regards, Ivan
God Bless the Constitution of the United States, and this honorable nation--a boast & toast I can proudly make freely, as the citizen of a genuine Republic unencumbered by the silliness of bowing, even rhetorically, to Kings & Queens & Crowns of any kind...
Yes, instead you have Paris Hilton, OJ Simpson and the Kennedy clan. Good job.
God Bless the Constitution of the United States, and this honorable nation--a boast & toast I can proudly make freely, as the citizen of a genuine Republic unencumbered by the silliness of bowing, even rhetorically, to Kings & Queens & Crowns of any kind...
No, instead you impute tremendous powers to the President. If you think that you're not expected to show some level of deference and respect to the President of the United States, you haven't been conscious recently.
Ivan
No American can boast about how we don't "worship" royalty, while the Kennedy's sell their trash at Sotheby's and that Michael Jackson circus is on TV every day. Personally, when you look at what gets the star treatment here in the US, the British royals seem like a better deal.
At least I salute a flag that represents a glorious, largely-realized ideal--and not an empty crown with a thousand plus years (and counting) of flawed human ambitions and petty internecine history behind it.
You do not need to be so rude.
That's your decision. It's a stupid decision, but liberty means both in the USA and UK, the freedom to be an idiot.
At least I salute a flag that represents a glorious, largely-realized ideal--and not an empty crown with a thousand plus years (and counting) of flawed human ambitions and petty internecine history behind it.
Without the history of this country you so obviously despise, you would not have the legacy of law, language and liberty that gives you the freedom to be the person you are. The results of that liberty, in your case, are less than appealing. Fortunately others make up for that.
Ivan
With Chuck and Cammie, it's more like pigs in a blanket...
heh
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