Mary Kenny
Pope Francis talks with Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, during a private audience at
the Vatican in 2017. Photo: CNS. Even leaving aside the Catholic Church (and up until 1995, the Irish electorate) few institutions have been as opposed to divorce during the 20th Century as the British royal family. King George V, monarch at the time of the foundation of the Irish State (and of the Stormont parliament), would not receive divorcés at court.…
