What do you think about Lady Viola Georgina Grosvenor (20)?
She seems a bit young to get married, but if Harry hasn't wed anyone else in the meantime, she might be a good candidate in five or ten years.
What do you think about Lady Viola Georgina Grosvenor (20)?
Not in the UK - Edward VIII asked that in 1936 and was told in no uncertain terms that Britain didn't recognise morganatic marriages. If it wasn't acceptable then there is no way it would be acceptable now.
There is no need for his wife to do royal duties as long as her career doesn't appear to be cashing in on her royal connections. Sophie tried reasonably successfully for awhile to continue with her career and then the fake sheikh struck (the same one who got Sarah and Princess Michael) so she and Edward were encouraged to become full-time working royals.
She wouldn't have to use her husband's title but she would still have it - e.g. Camilla is HRH The Princess of Wales but she uses the title Charles has had since his mother's accession, Duchess of Cornwall.
Sophie is a good comparison - if she had said at the time of marriage she wanted to remain Sophie RJ, would this have been refused?
A totally different scenario, after decades of royal life, but the Duchess of Kent eschews her HRH title and prefers to be known as Katherine Kent and live a fairly private life.
Not in the UK - Edward VIII asked that in 1936 and was told in no uncertain terms that Britain didn't recognise morganatic marriages. If it wasn't acceptable then there is no way it would be acceptable now.
Katherine Windsor (not Kent - Kent is the title while the name is Windsor) may refer to herself by whatever name she wants but her correct title, and the one that is used on official occasions is HRH The Duchess of Kent.
She often refers to herself as Katherine Kent - in the same was as Sophie Wessex or Harry Wales.
Harry Wales, yes Sophie Wessex, no. Whether she refers to herself as it or not doesn't matter Wales, Wessex nor Kent are surnames.
Noone said they were surnames.
I'm not really aware of the details of the Sheik problem nor what kind of job Sophie had, but if I understood correctly the problem had to do with cashing in with royal connections, right? From that perspective, any woman who marries in the RF and runs her own business will have the same problem.
But what if for example, the woman Harry marries had a totally different job, let's say she was scientist for example. Would she be allowed to continue with her job? like if she did research for a university in uk, for example?
While I would think that any woman Harry marries will be needed for full time royal duties eventually I suppose it would be possible if not very probable she could have a job outside of the BRF. There would be problems such as claims she profited from royal connections, claims that she received promotions due to royal connections, claims she was absent from her job too often due to royal obligations and her poor downtrodden co-workers were forced to cover for her, stories about her employer or co-workers being bothered by paps looking for stories about the royal wife or being bothered by royal security. No matter what her occupation it would be hard for her to continue to work a so called "normal job" when married to Harry.
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Harry' American thread is closed so I'll post this here.
Harry Wales, yes Sophie Wessex, no. Whether she refers to herself as it or not doesn't matter Wales, Wessex nor Kent are surnames.
OK - back to basics - please.
Explain morganatic marriages. I'm asking because looking at the posts its about getting married to an HRH, and not carrying out royal duties. That isn't right, is it?
Harry going by Harry Wales is the exact same as Sophie going by Sophie Wessex, or Katherine going by Katherine Kent. Instead of using the actual surname, Windsor, they use their title in place of a surname.
Public opinion about the Duchess of Cornwall is changing, people are seeing how wonderful she is.
By the time the Prince of Wales becomes King, the Duchess will be his Queen.
Diana's fans will all be dead or too old to complain by the time. No one born after 1997 cares about who Diana was.