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The Russian Tsar was also related to both the Germans and English royals.

Consequently you had members of the same family on opposite's sides of a war
to end all wars. Was that what King Edward the Eighth saw when he tried to stop
the Second World War after France was forced to give up? Was he trying to save

the Empire? We don't know and will never know though I suspect that the

Russian Intelligence Services may know via Anthony Blunt and his remarkable
mission at the end of the war to Berlin which is denied today. I often wonder if
his immunity from prosecution had something to do with that until Mrs Thatcher

sorted him out.

How is it possible that one family wedded into each other for political reasons (I
hope) failed so miserably? This is actually of interest to us for it shows me (and I

hope you) that the royally arranged marriages had no known effect on
preventing wars or anything else for that matter. These people were most likely

not soul mates as is seen from the countless mistresses and lovers they took in.
As such, why then bother? Why give your daughter then to a foreigner? Why not

allow King Edward the Eighth his marriage to an American woman then?

Eloping

We all have seen the movies and books where the bride and groom run away in

the middle of the night to get married somewhere. In law there is nothing
preventing someone to run away to get married as long as they are able to

marry legally. Typically though it happened with underage girls or where parents

refuse permission. Such a marriage is abnitio void as we saw and it may be a
crime under these conditions.

I know from reading the story of Tricycle (a British triple spy who predicted the
Pearl Harbour attack and was not believed) about the Mann Act in the US to

prohibiting white slavery and interstate transport of females for "immoral
purposes." He was arrested for doing just that with an actress (who was not

under aged and more than willing). Exactly what immoral purposes is no-one
seemed to know. As far as I know it still exists to apply only to transport for the

purpose of prostitution or illegal sexual acts and not so much eloping. There is
no such thing in South African law and no need either as there is only one law

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