ATTACK BY “THE TIMES”
Dealing with morganatic marriage. “The Times” said: “In law, apart from fact, she is not yet legally free to marry There is nothing to bar Airs. Simpson from becoming Consort or Queen in the full sense The disqualification |iere is not, as on the Continent, one of law, but of fact.
"What is demanded is statutory recognition that she is not fitted to be Queen. The Prime Ministers of the Empire are to be asked to accept and the Parliaments to accept and ratify a permanent statutory apology for the status of the lady whom the King desires to marry. The Constitution is to be amended in order that she may carry in solitary prominence the brand of unfitness for a Queen’s throne. Can anyone in possession of their faculties imagine any Prime Minister moving or any Parliament supporting a proposition so invidious and distressing?”
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 64, 9 December 1936, Page 11
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149ATTACK BY “THE TIMES” Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 64, 9 December 1936, Page 11
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