Reply #41: A divorced king IS allowed [View All]

The problem was never with his divorce, we have had at least one divorced king before (Henry VIII who was divorced three times) and the C of E DOES allow divorce. The problem was with him wishing to remarry to a woman who was (nominally) a Catholic. Under the Acts of Succession, a Catholic cannot take the throne as either king or queen. That problem was solved by designating Camilla as "Royal Consort" (Prince Phillip has the same title for much the same reason).

The king who abdicated (Edward VIII) did NOT do so because of his divorce since he hadn't actually married at that point. He abdicated because he was in love with an American divorcee called Wallis Simpson and the government opposed the marriage on the grounds that the people would never accept her because she was an American (and they suspected her of being sympathetic to teh Nazis, which was probably untrue).