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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureRoyalty · 9 years ago

Are Her Majesty's grandchildren...including Prince Harry allowed to marry a Saxe-Coburg and Gotha?

or would they be betraying George V of the United Kingdom who changed the name of his branch from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Changing the name didn't prohibit anyone from marrying a distant cousin from one of the many branches of the Saxe Coburg clan. There's no law or rule against it.

    There are actually next to no rules or laws concerning who can marry into the royal family. Even the rule against Roman Catholics has recently been abolished.

    Edit: LLwynog, you seem to be oddly unaware that the Hanovers were direct descendants of a long line of English and Scottish monarchs. George I was the great-grandson of King James VI/I Stuart and therefore also a direct descendant of Henry VII Tudor and all of the Stuarts and Plantagenets and William the Conqueror, plus the earlier Anglo-Saxon kings. If he hadn't been, he would not have been offered the throne.

    They didn't teach you this in school? Funny. I'm in the US, and they taught it to ME.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Members of the British Royal family are allowed to marry anyone they wish as long as they the permission of the Monarch.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I can't imagine a British consort with the surname 'Saxe-Coburg and Gotha' - it still sounds too German for the UK.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Yes, because they are free to marry whomever they want

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The House of Stuart should just be revived. The Germans should have never got the throne.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Lili is right but I personally think her Majesty might oppose out of respect.

  • 9 years ago

    This is a free Society and weather you be king or a tramp you have the right to do what you wish.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    No, though it might be betraying their line of heirs...who would likely wind up being deformed from having parents too closely related.

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    Lv 6
    9 years ago

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  • 9 years ago

    No, they would not ! Interbreeding doesn't work !

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