LONDON (AFP) - The fiancee of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest grandson has switched from Catholicism to the Church of England, a spokeswoman for Britain's royal family said Thursday.
The move means that Peter Phillips, son of Princess Anne, will not have to give up his place in the line of succession to the throne when he marries Canadian Autumn Kelly on May 17.
The 1701 Act of Settlement bars monarchs or their heirs from becoming or marrying Catholics.
A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman told AFP: "She was welcomed into the Church of England" but could not give details of when and why.
Phillips, 30 -- Anne's oldest child from her first marriage to Mark Phillips -- was the queen's first grandchild and is 11th in line to the throne.
He will marry Kelly, a 31-year-old management consultant, at Saint George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, west of London, later this month. Prince William is to be best man.
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about time? ya, I'd say.. it's at least 200 years overdue. Get with the times, people. Perhaps my mom is right when she says that anti-Catholicism seems to be the last acceptable form of discrimination??
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