# Ex-Archbishop of Canterbury: Charles and Camilla should get married **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 2, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-archbishop-of-canterbury-charles-and-camilla-should-get-married/248311 "2004-06-02T19:45:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-archbishop-of-canterbury-charles-and-camilla-should-get-married/248311/1 "2004-06-02T19:45:52Z")
Ever since Diana, Princess of Wales died, there’s been speculation whether Prince Charles would be able to marry Camilla Parker-Bowles in the Church of England. Charles is free to marry again in the church, but Ms. P-B is divorced, with her ex-husband still living, which normally causes some difficulties when re-marriage comes up. Re-marriage after divorce is permitted in some cases in the C. of E., but since Prince Charles will someday be Head of the C. of E., the question of marrying a divorced person raises eyebrows. Now, the former Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested that they should get married in the Church: [Prince Charles should marry Camilla, says former Archbishop of Canterbury](http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2004/06/02/483191-ap.html). One step closer to having Queen Camilla, looks like. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-archbishop-of-canterbury-charles-and-camilla-should-get-married/248311/2 "2004-06-02T19:56:16Z")
Hmmph. Pussy-footers. In the old days, Charles would just have Camilla’s ex [pushed downstairs](http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/R/Robsart.html). ---
**Author:** ![AveDementia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@AveDementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AveDementia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-archbishop-of-canterbury-charles-and-camilla-should-get-married/248311/3 "2004-06-02T22:37:17Z")
That’s actually rather sickening. So I guess adultery is less offensive to the former Archbishop than divorce? If he kissed Charles’ ass any harder his tonsils would rupture. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-archbishop-of-canterbury-charles-and-camilla-should-get-married/248311/4 "2004-06-02T23:50:27Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Hmmph. Pussy-footers. In the old days, Charles would just have Camilla’s ex [pushed downstairs](http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/R/Robsart.html). Hell, in the old days he’d have found some suitable foreign princess to marry, knock her up, and then keep Camilla around as a Lady of the Bedchamber. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-archbishop-of-canterbury-charles-and-camilla-should-get-married/248311/5 "2004-06-03T00:28:57Z")
Won’t someone _please_ think of the childrens’ teeth? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-archbishop-of-canterbury-charles-and-camilla-should-get-married/248311/6 "2004-06-03T02:12:37Z")
> [@AveDementia](#): > > So I guess adultery is less offensive to the former Archbishop than divorce? If he kissed Charles’ ass any harder his tonsils would rupture. Personally, I think it fits into the “better to marry than burn” category. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-archbishop-of-canterbury-charles-and-camilla-should-get-married/248311/7 "2004-06-03T02:18:00Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Hmmph. Pussy-footers. In the old days, Charles would just have Camilla’s ex [pushed downstairs](http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/R/Robsart.html). True, modern kings find their love-lives sadly hampered by those pettifogging lawyers and all their silly restrictions. Given that Charles won’t actually have any power, he couldn’t even adopt the simple tactic that King David used to get rid of [Uriah the Hittite](http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=2SAM+11:15&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=on&showxref=on). ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ex-archbishop-of-canterbury-charles-and-camilla-should-get-married/248311/8 "2004-06-03T02:21:01Z")
Does anybody else appreciate the horrible irony of Charles’ situation? While Diana lived, he wasn’t free to marry at all. Then unexpectedly she died; he’s free; and he’s in love with a divorced person whom he can’t marry (maybe). I think Bess will hang on until Charles is so old he doesn’t even know who Camilla is. Poor guy. Poor (rich) family.