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On 30 June 1978, Prince Michael was married, at a civil ceremony, at the Rathaus, Vienna, Austria, to Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, the only daugther of the Silesian nobleman Baron Gunther Hubertus von Reibnitz, and his Hungarian-born wife, Maria Anna Carolina Franziska Walpurga Bernadette, Countess Szapáry de Muraszombath, Széchysziget et Szapár.
The Kents' marriage was controversial because the Baroness was not only a Roman Catholic, but also a divorcée. She was previously married to banker Thomas Troubridge; they separated in 1973, divorced in 1977, and had their marriage annulled by the Roman Catholic Church a year later, two months before her marriage to Prince Michael. Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, which governs the laws of the succession to the British Throne, Prince Michael forfeited his place in the line of succession through marriage to a Roman Catholic.[source: Wikipedia]
A few pictures from the wedding:
http://i45.tinypic.com/14am0yp.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/11vthg2.jpg with Lord Louis Mountbatten and Princess Anne
http://i49.tinypic.com/303gxhg.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/r7oxuo.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/egcm5z.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/o5ngg8.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/qrc0vt.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/dpeja1.jpg
http://i45.tinypic.com/2nbzp4z.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/313tbtv.jpg group photograph with the family
http://i45.tinypic.com/mh6kv8.jpg the bride with her mother and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia
The Kents' marriage was controversial because the Baroness was not only a Roman Catholic, but also a divorcée. She was previously married to banker Thomas Troubridge; they separated in 1973, divorced in 1977, and had their marriage annulled by the Roman Catholic Church a year later, two months before her marriage to Prince Michael. Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, which governs the laws of the succession to the British Throne, Prince Michael forfeited his place in the line of succession through marriage to a Roman Catholic.[source: Wikipedia]
A few pictures from the wedding:
http://i45.tinypic.com/14am0yp.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/11vthg2.jpg with Lord Louis Mountbatten and Princess Anne
http://i49.tinypic.com/303gxhg.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/r7oxuo.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/egcm5z.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/o5ngg8.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/qrc0vt.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/dpeja1.jpg
http://i45.tinypic.com/2nbzp4z.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/313tbtv.jpg group photograph with the family
http://i45.tinypic.com/mh6kv8.jpg the bride with her mother and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia