I know that since she was divorced from the Prince of Wales, she could no longer be referred to as “the Princess of Wales” but only as “Diana, Princess of Wales.” As far as I know, protocol dictates that she could be called “Princess Diana” iff she had been born as a princess (whether of the UK or any other realm). Thus the Duchess of Cambridge, while being a princess of the United Kingdom by marriage, could not be called “Princess Catherine” but rather “Princess William” but “Princess William” is never used as her husband has a substantive title (unlike Prince Michael of Kent while having a royal title, does not possess a substantive title thus making his wife “Princess Michael of Kent”)
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London - XIV Avril, Anno Domini MDXI
Just over one year after the celebration of the Duke of Lorraine’s marriage, once again were the influential nobles of Lorraine and Bar assembled for the marriage of a member of the House of Lorraine. But instead of in their homeland at the Basilica of Saint-Èvre in Nancy, they had made the trip outre-Manche to St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. This time, they were accompanied by English nobles and French nobles alike - all assembled for the marriage of Count Claude de Lorraine, brother to Duke Antoine de Lorraine, and Princess Mary Tudor, sister to King Henry VIII of England. Their banners - the quartered fleur-de-lis and Lions of England of Princess Mary, and the traditional arms of the House of Lorraine displaying all the hereditary claims they maintained of Count Claude - hung on large banners across London and outside the Cathedral.
Antoine himself, as brother of the groom, looked quite satisfied at his position near the altar. Not only had he secured an excellent marriage for himself to the sister of the French Dauphin, but he’d also secured an excellent marriage for Claude to the sister of the English King. He reckoned that his father would’ve been quite proud.
It was decided that the wedding would maintain aspects of English and Lorranian marriage rites, and so Claude and William Warham, the Archbishop of Canterbury and officiant of the wedding, stood before the altar - rather than near the doors of the Cathedral, as would’ve been Lorranian procedure. Claude was considerably nervous. Though he’d met Mary a few times over the prior weeks during his stay in London and found her quite the marvel, consistently enthusiastic and generally a good host, nerves still found its hold on the fifteen year old Count.
When all the nobles were settled in - the senior nobles of Lorraine, England, and France towards the front, then succeeded gradually by lesser nobility, clergymen, and members of the bourgeois - the ceremony began in earnest. Princess Mary, wearing a blue gown, was guided through the open doors of the Cathedral and down through
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That the annulment would have made Mary a bastard and removed her from the line of succession seems to have been a major sticking point for Catherine and her relatives in Spain and the Empire. But in the 12th century, another famous annulment took place -- that of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine -- yet this annulment did not impact the legitimacy of their two daughters. Was there a church council of papal bull in the intervening years that changed canon law regarding the status of children from annulled marriages? Or was the grounds on which Henry was making his argument? Something else entirely?
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