Opposition only whetted George's passion. The more she refused to} Yield to him, the more ardent became his desire, In the end, finding her. so determinedly obdurate, he Broached the question of marriage. But even then Mary did not yield. She pointed out to him that, by the Act of Settlement, he would forfeit the throne of Great Britain if he married a Catholic; also, that the Royal Marriage Act rendered illegal any union contracted without the reigning sovereign's consent. That consent could not, in this case, be obtained.
"The Prince of Wales retorted, with fas much irreverence as callousness, that his royal father was nothing but a maniag, and that when he, George, came to the throne, he would change all the laws of England at her com-Tu the end, Mary FitzHerbert gave way. The Prince was duly married to her by the Rev. R. Burt, a clergyman of the Church of England, on cold winter's morning in 1785.. "The ceremony was kept a dead secret, Dut several of the Prince's friends got to know of it and openly spoke of Mary as Princess of Wales.
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