A Downing Road mandarin thought Charles and Camilla wouldn’t need to get married as a result of ‘awkward points’ which could come up.
The information present that in a 1997 memo – one month earlier than Princess Diana died – Alex Allan, the PM’s principal personal secretary, mentioned the then cupboard secretary Robin Butler needed to debate the pair’s relationship at a gathering.
Below the heading ‘Prince Charles and Camilla’, Mr Allan advised Sir Tony: ‘Robin put this on the agenda. His personal secretary thinks it’s to say there isn’t any probability that they are going to need to get married, with the awkward points that will increase’.
A Downing Road mandarin thought Charles and Camilla wouldn’t need to get married as a result of ‘awkward points’ which could come up
The be aware was despatched a month earlier than Princess Diana was killed in 1997. Charles and Camilla went on to marry in 2005.
The late Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh didn’t attend the wedding ceremony however did host a reception afterwards at Windsor Fortress.
There have been questions over the legality of the marriage, with some constitutional specialists arguing that the regulation prevented a member of the Royal Household from marrying at a register workplace.
However the then Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer gave the wedding the inexperienced gentle.
There have been questions over the legality of the marriage, with some constitutional specialists arguing that the regulation prevented a member of the Royal Household from marrying at a register workplace
He beforehand mentioned he believed the wedding can be authorized primarily based on the 1949 Marriage Act, which up to date the regulation on civil marriages and overturned the 1836 Marriage Act, which banned Royals from marrying in civil ceremonies.
Mr Allen was later knighted and in 2011 was appointed by former Conservative prime minister David Cameron because the PM’s the impartial adviser on ministerial requirements.
He resigned the submit in November 2020 after Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to sack Priti Patel from her function as residence secretary regardless of the adviser’s report concluding she had ‘not persistently met the excessive requirements anticipated of her’.
The commissioning of an artist who as soon as painted Daybreak French within the nude to color Mr Blair’s first Cupboard provoked jitters, the information present.
Scottish artist Peter Howson was lined up by the Scottish Nationwide Portrait Gallery in 1998, prompting one Labour aide to say ‘OK, however Howson may produce surprising end result.’ The plan was finally shelved.
