Deal hatched to let Prince Charles re-marry: report

LONDON (AFP) — British church leaders have cleared the way for the heir to the country's throne, Prince Charles, to wed a divorcee following years of debate about the constitutional implications, a report said.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the worldwide leader of the Anglican church, has given his personal blessing for the prince to marry Camilla Parker Bowles, the Times said on the front page of its Thursday edition.

Charles was previously married to, and divorced from, Princess Diana, who died in a car accident in Paris in August 1997, while Parker Bowles divorced her husband two years before that.

The issue of whether the royal heir can marry a divorcee has vexed constitutional experts for years, since the British monarch is the titular head of the Anglican church and thus officially expected to be beyond moral reproach.

Conservative Anglicans have long expressed opposition to Charles and Parker ...