

“So it would be helpful to clarify what it was.” “She clearly thinks something happened with 3 days prior,” Green continued. So what was the thing three days before? And if it was a marriage, what on earth are we doing ‘playing’ at prayer/holy matrimony for cameras.” Obviously lacking as a parish priest,” Green tweeted in a now-unavailable post, according to multiple media reports. Mary’s in West Malling, weighed in via Twitter on the couple’s claims of a secret second marriage after watching the interview. If what the Duke and Duchess claimed is true, it would mean that the private marriage overseen by the most senior clergyman of the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was directly violating multiple aspects of canon law. There is no restriction on the number of witnesses, nor is there an age limit but they must be able to understand what is taking place and testify if necessary as to what they have seen and heard,” the same handbook reads. “Two or more witnesses must be present at the marriage. “Yeah, just the three of us,” Prince Harry added.Īccording to the Church of England’s handbook for clergy, “A couple who are already lawfully married cannot choose to re-marry each other, unless there is some doubt as to the validity of the earlier marriage.”īecause the wedding ceremony televised from Buckingham Palace in 2018 was performed as a valid marriage ceremony with spiritual and legal ramifications, a private wedding with legal validity beforehand would mean that the Archbishop of Canterbury was performing an inappropriate and spiritually offensive act.Īdditionally, the Church of England requires the presence of at least two witnesses at a marriage ceremony for it to be considered valid.

But we want our union between us.’ So the vows that we have framed in our room are just the two of us in our backyard with the Archbishop of Canterbury…” “We called the Archbishop and we just said, ‘Look, this thing, this spectacle is for the world. But the claim caused waves.Īccording to the Church of England’s canon law, a second performance of the marriage cannot be given to a couple already in a valid marriage.Įven more urgently, the duchess tied up the Archbishop of Canterbury, the highest clergyman in the worldwide Anglican church system, in the supposed double-marriage debacle. The comment was made lightly and without any acknowledgement that this assertion might cause an issue. No one knows that,” Markle said in the interview. “I was thinking about it, you know our wedding-three days before our wedding, we got married. The duchess said that their real wedding had taken place privately in the days leading up to the public ceremony. In their sit down with Oprah, Markle stated for the first time publicly that the marriage the world witnessed in May 2018 in Windsor Castle was not the couple’s first matrimony. The hours-long interview covered a wide range of topics concerning the couple’s falling out with the House of Windsor, their treatment at Buckingham Palace, and their life since moving to the United States.īut one claim in particular caused trouble for the Church of England. The Duke of Edinburgh died in April following years of health concerns, but Harry was in the US when it happened and wasn’t able to return to the UK until after his grandfather had passed.WASHINGTON- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of Sussex and now-former senior members of the royal family, appeared in a bombshell interview with media mogul Oprah Winfrey on Sunday night that captured the attention of viewers worldwide. They claimed the royal would “never forgive himself” if he was unable to return to the UK before the Queen passes, as that’s what happened with Prince Philip. Harry and his family are the only members of the immediate royal family who do not live in England, close to the Queen, who is currently resting at Windsor Castle.Īccording to the source, being so far from his grandmother during this recent health scare has left Harry concerned about what will happen when she dies.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle seen in New York last month. “He felt helpless being 5,000 miles away in Montecito, and has been checking-in non-stop with her,” they told the outlet. The Duke of Sussex currently lives in the US with his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and their two children, Archie and Lilibet.Īn inside source told Us Weekly that the 37-year-old panicked when he was told of the Queen’s hospital stay in the UK earlier this month. Prince Harry reportedly went into “panic mode” when he received news of his grandmother’s health scare.
