Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least cynical among us find it hard to see why an innocent party to a divorce [i.e., Sir Anthony Eden] can become the man who appoints archbishops and bishops, while the Princess, who merely exercises her social graces and has a very remote chance of succeeding to the throne, should be denied by ecclesiastical prescription the right to marry an innocent party to a divorce. That odd piece of inconsistency may be typically English, but it has more than a smack of English hypocrisy about...
...news. "They had tea together again," intoned the other. But back of the little jokes and the large admonitions, a disquieting uncertainty hung over the nation. Nobody in Britain expected that the Princess' romance with her divorced com moner would end in the collapse of the British throne, or believed that it could cause more than a passing disruption in Anthony Eden's government. What it could do, and had perhaps already done, was to damage a faith already weakened by repeated blows...
When Edward chose the course of abdication, six-year-old Margaret herself asked with eyes wide, "Are they going to chop off his head?" It was not necessary. In choosing to give up his throne, Edward made himself, in British eyes, something less than a man without a head. The people of Britain let him go, anointed his conscientious younger brother George (Margaret's father) in his place and tried to forget him. A new royal family was established in Buckingham Palace, and the most beguiling member of it was an impish little Princess known as Margaret Rose...
...this, but there is not much to compare in the two. Edward was the King-Emperor, the personal embodiment of the sovereign power in a Britain still governed by Victorian standards. Margaret is a Princess, in a predominantly socialist-minded state, who has little chance of ascending the throne...
...apostasy to the violation of Christ's marriage law." The head of Britain's Methodist Conference granted the Princess' right to marry a divorced man. but he was no less firm than the Anglicans in denying Margaret and her prospective issue the right to ascend the throne...