Dave Smith wrote:
> That is one of the prices that one pays for being a member of the inbred
> royal family. The monarch is head of the Church of England, which for
> years had a problem with divorce. When Elizabeth dies Charles is next in
> line for the crown, and then the head of the church that doesn't like
> divorce will be a divorced male. His great uncle did the honourable thing
> and abdicated, which was a pity because it was an opportunity to have a
> pretty queen. This one is pretty rough looking.

Wasn't the Catholic church vilified and the CoE started by Henry VIII in
revolt for not being able to get shed of a wife?

I don't believe the Church of England really has a problem with divorce. I
believe the royals had a problem with female social climbing divorced
American commoner insisting that she WILL be called "Queen."

<and Wallace Simpson would have been "a pretty queen"????>