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Queen Elizabeth II to Attend Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Royal Wedding
The world is eagerly anticipating the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on May 19, but the Queen's attendance was not confirmed publicly.
It is expected that the Queen will attend the wedding service at St. George's in Windsor Castle, but Her Majesty notably refused to attend her son Prince Charles' 2005 wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles.
It is believed that the Queen made the decision not to attend her son's wedding as Camilla was a divorcee.
The Telegraph reported in 2005 that a royal source told the paper, the Queen takes her position as Supreme Governor of the Church of England incredibly seriously.
She also has great personal faith.
The Queen is the Governor of the Church of England, a denomination of the Christian faith created by the Queen's ancestor Henry VIII.
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However, the Queen will attend Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding, even though the actress is a divorcee.
Royal Butler Grant Harrold, who has served as a butler for HRH Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry, gave his insight.
The butler told Express UK, “People have mentioned it to me but I say look Prince Charles' wedding was 13 years ago, times have changed, it could be a change of heart, I don't know the answer as to why she didn't go to Charles' wedding but she was at the second part.”
The Queen's experience of her uncle's abdication to marry divorcee Wallace Simpson, which happened when she was a child and made her father king, may have influenced Her Majesty's decisions making.
Butler Grant said, “You have the unfortunate Edward and Wallace Simpson episode and 70 years later nobody blinks an eyelid.”
Jeremy Kyle, television host, claimed in 2012 that the Queen Mother blames Wallace Simpson for the early death of George VI.
He said, “My father, now in his 80s, was the Queen Mum's personal secretary and accountant 41 years.
She always blamed Wallace Simpson for killing her husband, if not for the abdication and old Bertie becoming king, she believed he'd have lived longer.”
King Henry VIII created the Church of England when he denounced the Pope and Catholicism to leave his wife Catherine of Aragon in 1534.
He went on to marry a further seven times.
In 2002, before Charles' wedding the Church voted for a motion that made marriage of a divorce permitted in church.
The Church of England states in its official statement on marriage in church after divorce, “The Church of England teaches that marriage is for life, it also recognizes that some marriages sadly do fail and, if this should happen, it seeks to be available for all involved.
The Church accepts that, in exceptional circumstances, a divorced person may marry again in church during the lifetime of a former spouse.”
Despite any previous tensions, it seems that the Queen has set her worries aside to attend Harry and Meghan's wedding.
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