I'm 22 years old. I've fallen in love with a divorced man who is fifteen years older than me, who already has two children, the older one is twelve. We want to get married, but my family isn't very happy about it...
Because?
...because my hidebound family takes itself incredibly seriously as beacons of propriety so divorce is unthinkable, and my sister and mother are a long, long way up themselves, and they have told me that if I insist on marrying they will drop me like a hot potato from the family - they did this twenty years ago to a family member who married a divorcee so I have no doubt they would do the same to me. Also, I have been denied a useful education and I could never find a paying job, so there is no way I have any choice really.
"I have been aware that, subject to my renouncing my rights of succession, it might have been possible for me to contract a civil marriage. But, mindful of the Church's teachings that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before others."
Margaret's statement.
Clearly, the situation has been brutally spelled out to her.
Oh and fwiw, the Mountbattens threw Philip across the Queen's bows when she was a child of thirteen.
And let's hear some outrage about Charles marrying a virginal 20 year old Diana who was twelve years younger than him, apparently with the blessing of the Queen, who can't possibly have been ignorant of the vast chasm in experience that went along with the twelve year gap. Or maybe she was genuinely not aware of the string of women he had spent his adult years bedding, or his involvement with Camilla Parker Bowles, whose ancestor had been Charles' great great grandfather's mistress (one of many).
Shudder...
The hypocrisy is breathtaking.