re: #386 thedopefishlives

As far as I know, it was never a hard-and-fast “rule” about divorce, more of a, “You will be an incredibly unpopular king and it will look bad, so we’d rather you abdicate if you want to marry this woman.” That being said, yes, times (and rules) have changed.

Ah. Not much of a reader of English history past the Spanish Armada so I didn’t know. I did read a bit about Edward VIII and Wallace Simpson. I believe that one of the objections at the time (This was in the mid-1930s) was that it would be inappropriate for Edward, as the head of the C of E, to be married to a woman twice divorced. My late father was 16 years old when Edward abdicated so the how-it-was of that era is nearly as remote as the how-it-was of ancient Rome to me.