skatfan
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Did Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville marry for love?
Through his scandalous marriage to unlikely queen Elizabeth Woodville, Edward IV defied the expectation that he should use such a union as a diplomatic tool and instead prioritised love – or perhaps lust. Amy Licence, late medieval and early Tudor historian, explores their 19-year relationship…www.historyextra.com
Yes in the Middle Ages secret weddings did happen but all kinds of issues arose see Edward IV and his caddying ways.
It use to be that all couples had to do was say vows to each other and they were married Catholic doctrine is couple confers Sacrament on each other.
But due to the fact that you would have men saying vows sleeping with women and the leaving them high and dry....
It’s possible Henry VIII also wanted control but considering his own Uncles were declared illegitimate put in a tower than murdered all due to secret marriages he may have felt rules were needed.
It was more that he wanted to control the nobility and the alliances that would be created by marriage. He himself secretly wed Anne Boleyn before their public marriage.
And I like the ones that do not control whether someone’s marriage has ended separate from civil marriage. As I made clear, the suffering created by this practice is not something I approve of.As for Catholic annulments every religion has its rules. And it applies who people who married or want to get married in the Catholic Church.