AMENDING ACT OF SETTLEMENT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 307, 11 December 1936, Page 5

AMENDING ACT OF SETTLEMENT

EDWARD VISITED QUEEN MARY WITH HIS BROTHER. BRITISH CABINET HAD PREPARED FOR ANYEVENTUALITY. 1 ======================== LONDON, December 10. The Times draws attention to the complicated legislative position if, as is generally anticipated, the monarch desires to relinquish the Throne.” It is argued that even though he renounces the Throne , the King will still under the Act of Settlement be the rightful occuI pant and would be in a position to claim it later if in the 'meantime the Act of Settlement were not amended. It will have also to be provided that the children of the new King rather than those of the outgoing monarch would be heirs to the Throne. “A further point which must be considered is the right of the King to carry out the marriage he now contemplates, despite the existing law, -which gives the monarch the right to approve or disapprove marriages of other members of the Royal Family. The financial position of the outgoing monarch must also be considered. The Civil List Act provided for members of the Royal Family on the assumption that each one was in the line of succession to the Throne. Such a position would not arise in the case of a Prince voluntarily surrendering his place. A new Select Committee will have to prepare a new civil list in the New Year. The Cabinet has made so much progress with the task of preparing for any eventuality that the Ministers realise that there only remains I for His Majesty to give his decision.” “Cancellation or postponement of the Coronation would /cause a colossal loss to trade,” says the Manchester Guardian. “Insurance would cover only a minute fraction of it.” According to the Daily Telegraph, its special correspondent says the meeting of the King and his mother, at which the Duke of York was present, took place at the Duke of York’s country home, Royal Lodge, Windsor, in conditions of the greatest secrecy. The servants of Ford Belvedere were told to retire to their own quarters. The King when informed of his mother’s arrival walked across the grounds to the roadway, where the car awaited. The talk lasted half an hour. The Queen remained with the Duke of York a (little while after the King’s departure.