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...family was very sensitive about scandal. This was before Charles convened his triangular marriage with Diana and Camilla, before Andrew and Fergie went their separate wiggy ways, before Prince Harry discovered pot. To be precise, it was the 1950s, in the still lingering aftermath of the abdication of Edward VIII, when the young Queen Elizabeth II was gamely reinforcing the credibility--meaning the dullness--of the throne and her younger sister Margaret was straining at the leash...
...learned about it at her sister's coronation in 1953, the year after Townsend had obtained a divorce, when Margaret was seen brushing a bit of dust from his jacket, not the kind of thing that royalty ordinarily does for commoners. In a nation where few had forgiven Edward VIII for giving up his throne because he insisted on marrying a divorced woman, the prospect that Margaret might wed a divorced man led to a huge public uproar...
...same, Harry can already claim a certain credit for modernizing the monarchy. Edward VIII's abdication for the woman he loved nearly caused a constitutional crisis. The Charles-Diana saga made the Windsors into an E! channel special, a gripping example of how never, ever to behave. Now Harry's problems are a group-therapy lesson, a gentle excuse for millions of parents to talk to their teens. Who says the royal family no longer has a role...
...last charge. Nazir-Ali has admitted to being a practicing Catholic while at St. Paul's School and during a year at St. Patrick's College in Karachi before he became an Anglican at age 20. Not that the Papist allegations bothered too many. Times have changed since Henry VIII severed ties with Rome in 1534. The Queen this month overturned five centuries of history by inviting Britain's Catholic leader, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, to preach at Sandringham's parish church on the royal estate, and Prime Minister Tony Blair often accompanies his Catholic wife Cherie to Mass...
...more possibilities to just two names - all in great secrecy. Blair could reject both, though this would be unusual, before recommending one to the Queen, who then appoints his choice. The process is an expression of the strange union between church and state that Britain inherited from Henry VIII. There have long been calls for disestablishment of the church - its separation from the state. Carey, like his predecessors, has opposed them...