AS THE so-called fairy-tale royal marriage of Charles and Di now ends in divorce, the Church of England's wishy-washy machine obligingly grinds into gear - with the House of Bishops setting up a committee to review Church policy on the remarriage of divorcees.

There is, I think, no need to wait for its findings. It's a safe bet that, in line with its manifest outlook that it is more desirable to be in tune with the times than it is to be right, its current law that marriage is for life will be watered down - especially also in view of the necessity of sparing a future King Charles the embarrassment of being a living contradiction of the faith he will be defending.

Yet, though I might groan at the prospect of yet more weak ambivalence by the Church, I also look forward to them paving the way for the Prince's remarriage.

For blessed though it may be by an anything-to-please Church, if it is to the "other woman" Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles, it will, I believe, not be blessed with the consent of most people.

"Queen" Camilla would be the straw that broke the camel's back in the public's disenchantment with the monarchy and we might happily see the demise of an institution that has been a costly anachronism for too long already.

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