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The Duchess of Kent converted to Catholicism in 1994; she was the first member of the royal family to convert publicly since the passing of the Act of Settlement 1701. The Duchess is strongly associated with the world of music and has performed as a member of several choirs.
Members of the royal family such as Katharine, Duchess of Kent and former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair have also converted to the Catholic Church, in Blair's case in December 2007 after he had left office. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Excluding those princesses who have married into Roman Catholic royal families, such as Marie of Edinburgh, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh, one member of the Royal Family (that is, with the style of Royal Highness) has converted to Roman Catholicism since the passage of the Act: the Duchess of Kent, wife of ...
For decades, the royal family has made a habit of visiting St Mary Magdalene, a 16th-century church on their Sandringham property, on Christmas day, and 2024 is shaping up to be no different. As ...
The whole world sees the royal family as they depart their morning church service at St. Mary Magdalene on Dec. 25, walking past (and engaging with!) a crowd of well-wishers as they head back to ...
As such, a Roman Catholic is viewed as "naturally dead" for the purposes of succession. [32] The Act of Settlement further provided that anyone who married a Roman Catholic was ineligible to succeed. The Act did not require that the spouse be Anglican; it only barred those who married Roman Catholics.
The Dutch Royal Family historically have been members of the Dutch Reformed Church. It became the Protestant Church in the Netherlands after its 2004 merger, but some members of the royal family are Roman Catholic. There is no law in the Netherlands stipulating what religion the monarch should be, although the constitution stipulated up to 1983 ...
As a result of the 1701 Act of Settlement, any member of the British royal family who joins the Catholic Church must renounce the throne. [20] The Succession to the Crown Act 2013 allows members to marry a Roman Catholic without incurring this ban. Opposition to the State visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom can be found on that page.