E be Spectator
June 9,1866
The proceedings in the "Princess Olive" case . . . have incidentally disposed of a story our grandmothers cordially believed—the marriage of George HI. to the Quaker Hannah Lightfoot. The certificates of that marriage were produced, and were promptly pronounced by the Probate Court to be forgeries, the clergyman spelling "duly" with an e—duely—and the Prince of Wales signing himself "George Guelph." The Lord Chief Justice, in describing these docu- ments, said that if correct the marriage of George III. to Queen Caroline was invalid and all his successors ineligible to the Throne; but is that precisely so? Would not the recognition of that marriage as legal in repeated Acts of Parliament legalize it under any circumstances whatever?
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