

Monday, February 14, 2005
Is Charles and Camilla's proposed marriage legal?
I wondered what all the fuss was about when I people talking about the marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles. But this week's Panorama on BBC (broadcast on the web) points out that the 1949 Marriage Act expressly forbids civil weddings by members of the Royal Family. Here's Princess Margaret telling us the advice she was given back in 1960. They could get married in Scotland, mind you!