Order in Council - Recording the Queen's Instrument of Consent to a Royal Marriage [2018-03-14]
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At the Court at Buckingham Palace
THE 14th DAY OF MARCH 2018
PRESENT,
THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased, in pursuance of the provisions of an Act entitled Succession to the Crown Act 2013, to declare Her Consent to a Contract of Matrimony between Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales, K.C.V.O. and Rachel Meghan Markle, which Consent Her Majesty has caused to be signified under the Great Seal:
HER MAJESTY was thereupon pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the Instrument (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed), signifying Her Majesty’s Consent as aforesaid, be entered in the Books of the Privy Council in pursuance of the further provisions of the aforementioned Act.
Richard Tilbrook
ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!
WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament entitled “Succession to the Crown Act 2013”, it is amongst other things enacted that “a person who (when the person marries) is one of the 6 persons next in the line of succession to the Crown must obtain the consent of Her Majesty before marrying”, such consent to be signified under the Great Seal, declared in Council, and recorded in the books of the Privy Council:
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NOW KNOW YE that We have consented and do by these Presents signify Our Consent to the contracting of Matrimony between Our Most Dearly Beloved Grandson Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales, K.C.V.O., and Rachel Meghan Markle.
In Witness whereof We have caused Our Great Seal to be affixed to these Presents.
Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace the Fourteenth day of March 2018 in the Sixty-seventh year of Our Reign.
BY THE QUEEN HERSELF SIGNED WITH HER OWN HAND
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