Clerics support Charles's wish to wed Camilla
AFP, London
The former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, gave moral support yesterday to the controversial relationship between Prince Charles and his long-time lover, Camilla Parker-Bowles, saying it would be natural for them to marry. "He is the heir of the throne and he loves her. The natural thing is that they should get married," Carey said in an interview splashed over the front page of The Times newspaper. Parker-Bowles became one of the most unpopular women in Britain after Charles's late wife Diana was quoted as blaming her for the break-up in November 1992 of her 10-year marriage to the prince. But Carey told The Times that Charles was more "sinned against than sinning" in his marriage to Diana. He described the relationship between Charles and Parker-Bowles, which began when they were young and continued after both were married, as "part of the fallibility of the human condition". Parker-Bowles and her husband, Andrew, divorced in March 1995. Last year the Church of England changed its laws to allow divorcees to remarry in church, a decision widely interpreted as opening the way for Charles and Parker-Bowles to wed.
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