posted March 27, 2005 11:20 PM              

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Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles will be married in a civil ceremony in the town hall at Windsor, west of London.

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LONDON (March 27) - A high-ranking Church of England official has called for Prince Charles to apologize to the ex-husband of his fiancee Camilla Parker Bowles, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Bishop David Stancliffe said church rules dictated Prince Charles must atone for committing adultery and he should apologize to Andrew Parker Bowles for breaking up his marriage, The Sunday Times newspaper said.

Stancliffe, a church authority on rules of worship, said the apology should come before the April 8 wedding and should include ''making good of any hurts, the restoration of relationships and serious attention being paid to the relationships fractured or damaged by misconduct.''

He did not say whether he thought the apology should be in person, by letter or by other means.

A spokesman for Charles' office would not comment on the issue.

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles will be married in a civil ceremony in the town hall at Windsor, west of London, followed by a service of prayer and dedication at Windsor castle's chapel.

It is unprecedented for an heir to the throne to marry outside of a church, but the Church of England - of which Charles will be supreme governor when he is king - has qualms about remarriage for divorcees.

The forthcoming marriage has upset some members of the church - which traditionally frowns on church remarriages for divorcees whose spouses are still alive -because Parker Bowles' ex-husband is living.

Camilla Parker Bowles, who was widely blamed in Britain's tabloid press for the breakdown of Charles' marriage to Princess Diana, divorced army officer Andrew Parker Bowles in 1995.

Their divorce came after Charles admitted in a TV documentary in 1994 that he had strayed from his marriage vows, but insisted infidelity happened only after the marriage was ''irretrievably broken down, us having both tried.'' It was widely assumed, but never confirmed, that Parker Bowles was the other woman.

Prince Charles divorced Princess Diana in 1996, a year before she was killed in a car crash.

posted March 29, 2005 12:48 AM              

These are grown people. Cheating isn't acceptable (to me)... but there is ALWAYS a reason. If someone is cheating, there's trouble in the marriage that goes deeper than fidelity.

posted March 29, 2005 06:39 AM              

Camilla was the only one he ever loved!

Diana was being "used " in order to give him children (and being a virgin was a must for the future King's wife - she was even made to have a physical exam...to prove it!), consequently the very much married and untitled Camilla wasn't acceptable wife material for a Royal Prince at the time he married the very acceptable Lady Diana - at least not "publicly" accepted, but Camilla and Charles continued their love affair, in spite of his marriage to Diana...and Diana knew from the getgo that he and Camilla had a thing going...

Diana said on a TV interview, "There were
three of us in this marriage."

Diana, the virgin Princess Bride

It seems the "rules" are not so rigid anymore, and Charles can at last have his real true love!

Camilla, the more "seasoned" one

posted April 06, 2005 01:04 PM              

And as far as transgressions are concerned, a great many of his ancestors were a lot "worse" than him in that respect. The Church is not really in any place to condemn the union; as someone rightly pointed out, it was originally set up so that Henry VIII could marry his then mistress.

posted April 06, 2005 06:39 PM              

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The Church is not really in any place to condemn the union; as someone rightly pointed out, it was originally set up so that Henry VIII could marry his then mistress.

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Yup! Anne Boleyn was the mistress, who eventually wound up losing her lovely head! On the order of her "dearly beloved husband!" *sigh*

You're right! Lots of "hanky panky" went on in those days...and Old Henry VIII was notorious for knocking off a wife or two, when it pleased his royal fancy! *shivvers at the thought*