Who Can Really Say?

Prince Charles will marry Camilla Parker Bowles.

They will be married in a largely private civil ceremony at the palace, not in a Church of England service. ?There will subsequently be a service of prayer and dedication in St. George?s Chapel at which the Archbishop of Canterbury will preside,? said Clarence House.

The decision on the type of service reflects the fact that both are divorcees, and that Parker Bowles? former husband is still living. In general, the Church of England, the legally established faith of the nation, disapproves of remarriage of divorced people in church.

I could truly give a rat's ass, but I'm not sure that's an appropriate gift, and I don't expect to be getting an invitation in any case. James Joyner, though, has the best response to the "type of service" point mentioned above.

What amuses me about this is that the ability of royals to divorce and remarry is the raison d'etre of the Church of England. It not only does not violate tradition, it is its founding principle.