Anson Rooms, Richmond Building, Queens Road, Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1LN
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
18:30
£20.00
The marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, when the second son of the Prince of Wales married a divorced American actress of mixed race and uncertain religion, was seen as marking a fundamental modernisation of the British monarchy.
Actually, it was only a return of the 14th century when one of the many sons of Kind Edward III married a twice-divorced merry widow who'd eloped with her first husband at the age of 12; another part-Moorish Spanish princess who (it is claimed) was a direct descendent of the Prophet Muhammed; while a third we the au pair!
This talk traces the radically shifting marriage customs of the British monarchy, from the laxity of the Middle Ages, through the stringencies of the Hanoverians, to the house of Windsor and its sometimes contorted adaptions to the realities of modern family life.
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