Law change to ensure gay man cannot become Queen
By Nick Levine
Before the first same-sex marriages take place next month, the law will apparently be amended so that a gay man cannot become Queen or Princess of Wales.
A draft order expected to be debated by MPs and Peers next week will lay down several exclusions to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act before it comes into force on March 13, The Telegraph reports.
The order will reportedly specify that a clause in the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act giving gay and heterosexual marriage the same legal effect does not apply to the rights of anyone “who marries, or who is married to, the King Regnant, to the title of Queen”.
The order is also said to prescribe that if a future Prince of Wales were to marry a man, his husband would have no right to the title of Princess of Wales.
In addition, the order will apparently ensure that male peers such as Dukes and Earls will be unable to make their husbands a Duchess, Countess or Lady.
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