As Harry’s bride she has become one of the most famous women in the world, but as a royal her celebrity is conditional. In the days when she had a social media presence, she described herself as a “ strong, confident mixed-race woman” and a “feminist.” But as a member of a family which carefully eschews anything that looks like a political statement, Meghan will have to walk the tightrope between personal belief and her royal persona. The real challenge for Meghan will come after the wedding. But the ceremony on May 19 should prove once and for all that divorce is no longer an obstacle to the nation’s desire for a full-on fairytale royal wedding. Perhaps Charles’s wedding was more sensitive because so many of his subjects remembered his first wedding to Lady Diana Spencer and the couple did not want to draw unfortunate comparisons in the public’s mind. Thirteen years later Meghan, a convert to Anglicanism, has been given dispensation to have a full church wedding in the same chapel. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, because they had both been divorced. When Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005, they had a civil ceremony followed by a blessing in St. Three of the Queen’s four children have broken marriages. Divorce is no longer considered a stigma in Britain, either to remarriage or to being received into the royal family. In the vast coverage of the relationship between the American divorcée Meghan Markle and Prince Harry there has hardly been a ripple of disquiet that Meghan has been married before. Couples who had been divorced could not be received at court.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior cleric in the Anglican church, said in 1935 that no Christian could marry again while their ex-wife or husband was still living. But a woman who had been married twice before marrying the man who was also Supreme Governor of the Church of England was completely beyond the pale.
Perhaps the British might have accepted a commoner, and at a pinch an American.
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