ROYAL MARRIAGE ACT
Changes Likely In 1772 Measure
(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, June 5. Proposals for a change in the Royal marriage laws are expected to be put before the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ conference in London this month, the “Daily Mail” reported today. The newspaper said that the main alteration was understood to be limitation of the number of members of the Royal Family to whom the Royal Marriages Act of 1772 applied. Under this act, passed in the reign of King George 111, all members of the Royal Family must seek the Sovereign’s permission to marry. The “Daily Mail” report said one proposal was that the number of persons affected by the act should be limited to about a dozen nearest in succession after the Royal Family. An example of the act’s scope was given last week, when the Queen officially announced her consent to the marriage of her cousin. Lord Carnegie, who is eighteenth in the line of succession. ,
The newspaper said that repeal of the act was most unlikely, but amending legislation could not be undertaken by Parliament without the approval of the Commonwealth countries.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 13
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