Pains and Penalties Bill

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The Pains and Penalties Bill ( German : The Pain and Penalties Bill ) of 1820 was a bill of the British Parliament . It was arranged by King George IV to withhold the rights of a queen from his wife Caroline von Braunschweig and to dissolve the marriage with her.

His advisors had advised George IV not to go into divorce proceedings. Georg not only had numerous lovers, which would have been discussed in a public divorce process. As Crown Prince, he had also secretly married the Catholic and twice widowed Maria Fitzherbert . This was a violation of both the Act of Settlement and the Royal Marriages Act : Members of the British royal family were not allowed to marry or enter into marriage with a member of the Catholic faith without the approval of the British monarch. If Caroline von Braunschweig had brought this up in a normal process, it might have cost George IV the throne.

literature

  • Jane Robins: Rebel Queen - How the Trial of Caroline Brought England to the Brink of Revolution . Pocket Books, London 2007, ISBN 0-7434-7826-6