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Originally Posted by florawindsor
today i read a book in which the author said, the 1689 bill or rights forbid the heir to the throne to marry a girl from any other race, they can only marry white girls. as i never heard of this before, i searched for the text of bill of rights, but find no restraints of this sort. is the author lying?
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Hello Flora.
It is wrong since there had been two black Queen of Great Britain.
#Queen Phillipa (first picture), Queen in 1327
#Queen Charlotte (second pic), Queen somewhere in the XVIIIth century
I think back then the concept of race or nationality was of relatively low importance (especially nationality). Those concepts became very important with the rise of the Romanticism, so it's quite recent.
Obviously nowadays, and considering the degree of racism (latent or openly expressed) among the British society, a non-white royal spouse in highly unlikely.