Is prince William and Catherine Middleton married?

If consent had not been given, they would have had to wait 12 months from the time of requesting consent from The Queen of their intention for it to be valid. The Royal Marriages Act is quite clear that in order to have a legal marriage, people over 25 and in the line of succession needed to have a 12 month betrothal of they didn't want to get permission. The law as it stands now, states that the first six in line to the throne need consent regardless of age or length of engagement.

According to both laws (the RMA and 2013 Succession to the crown Act). William would retain succession rights but George would never have a place in the line of succession.

This is down to the Royal Marriages Act 1772. This states that no marriage of a descendant of King George II is valid unless the reigning monarch consents. Unless that person is over 25, gives notice to the Privy Council and gets married anyway - in which case the marriage is valid one year later.

So the practical upshot is that it would have made no difference. It does not affect Prince William's place in the line of succession, as the Act says nothing about that, but if the marriage had not been approved and the bit about what happens if he was over 25 (which of course he was) didn't apply, that just makes Prince George technically illegitimate and not in line to the throne. But Prince George was born over a year after the wedding so even that's not an issue.

It really all is a huge red herring. King George III got Parliament to pass the Act because he was unhappy with who two of his brothers had married. This was rather a case of "shutting the stable door after the horse had bolted".

Meanwhile, consent as required by the Act has never been refused. And there are so many descendants of George II now, that most of them have never even asked for it. So it's clearly a nonsense and when the Succession to the Crown Act 2013 comes into force (this is the one that makes the first-born child first in line to the throne regardless of sex), it will be repealed and replaced with a requirement that only the first six people in the line of succession to the throne have to get the Queen's consent to marry.

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