European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes tuesday april 1, 1986 British Royalty s common touch by Maureen Johnson associated press by choosing Sarah Ferguson As his future Bride Prince Andrew is following what has become the newest tradition in Britain ancient and prestigious Royal family marrying commoners. Not since Queen Elizabeth la s wedding in 1947 to a Distant Cousin Philip son of Prince Andrew of Greece and also a Prince of the Royal House of Denmark has a member of her family married Royalty. It s not for Lack of Choice. There Are dozens of possibilities among foreign Royal cousins although Many would cause big problems because of the 1701 act of settlement. That act bars a roman Catholic from becoming the British Monarch because the Monarch is temporal head of the anglican Church of England. The centuries of marriages arranged to link ruling dynasties Means that the members of almost every Royal House in Europe reigning or deposed Are related to each other. And despite the demise of Many of Europe s monarchies since world War i Royal blood is thickest of All. The cousins from deposed germans italians greeks and romanians through still reigning scandinavians belgians dutch and spaniards All show up at British Royal weddings and funerals. The fact that they now come to watch the most famous of them All Britain s House of Windsor marrying below the regal Salt reflects both political and social change in the View of genealogists. With vanished political Power has gone the need to make dynastic links which saw for example the profligate George in married to a woman he so detested Caroline of Brunswick Olfenbuttel that he locked her out of his 1821 Coronation. Marrying commoners largely reflects a change to the More open social style of the monarchy said genealogist Charles Kidd editor of de Brett s peerage which along with Burke s peerage keeps track of British and Continental Royalty and aristocrats. It now seems More natural that they would marry somebody who is British. And i think it makes them identify More closely with their not just anybody who is British of course will do in a highly class conscious society. Elizabeth s first three children heir Charles 37, Anne 35, and now Andrew 26, have chosen from the upper Middle class or the aristocracy. Royalty watchers predict that when the time comes her youngest child Edward 22, will follow suit. It is a pattern Many observers believe has strengthened the British monarchy even if in the View of genealogist Harold Brooks Baker it has miffed some foreign Royalty both protestant and Catholic. For three years beginning in 1977, Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg a Catholic was rumoured As a possible Bride for Prince Charles. Today s crossword by Eugene Sheffer a photo engaged Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew. Them said Brooks Baker publishing director of Burke s peerage. Hailing the end of what she termed dredging the backwaters of various european kingdoms for Royal spouses London daily mail columnist Ann Leslie commented recently that the monarchy has prospered by responding to the changing mood of modern Princess Anne married an army officer capt. Mark Phillips in 1973. In 1981, Charles married an Earl s daughter lady Diana Spencer with a background similar to that of the untitled Ferguson wealthy landowning families with longtime Royal connections. They Are also All English descended from Stuart Kings unlike the German descended House of Windsor which changed its name from Saxe Coburg in world War i to disguise the German connection. Ever since then the attempt to be English has been much on their minds. My personal feeling is that the search for identity on this Island is the key to All this said Brooks Baker. George v 1910-36 lived in terror for years that the monarchy would be abolished because it was too Elizabeth s children have followed a pattern set by her now divorced sister Margaret who a generation earlier in 1960 married a trendy society photographer Antony Armstrong Jones. The Queen gave him the title lord Snowdon. But the tradition of marrying Only fellow royals had cracked before Elizabeth succeeded to the throne in 1952. Strictly speaking the last English Monarch to marry a Royal was Elizabeth s great Grandfather Edward Vii. He succeeded his Mother Queen Victoria in 1901 and was married to Denmark s Princess Alexandra. Their son George a married Princess Victoria Mary of Teck granddaughter of a Prince of the German Royal House of Wurttemberge. But said Brooks Baker Mary of Teck carried Only the title her Serene highness As opposed to Royal highness because her Grandfather had married beneath him noblewoman who was not Elizabeth s father George i also married a non Royal lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon. But he was a second son and Only came to the throne because his brother Edward Viii abdicated in 1936 to i m absolutely certain he would have married Marie marry the sort of commoner the Royal family would not Astrid if the religious question had t been so difficult for accept twice divorced american Wallis Simpson. I be never there s also Pozos Ofsink pok5 Animos and loafers hawaiian \5hik15 but. 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