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Show Royalty Formerly Married Outside Its Own Circles Britain's kings did not always oek ' their mates from fi e row (1 . i.-s ef royalty. In the days of ih- T.--i-tagoneta. Tudors aad S;i;ar alii f s"ntlih and Srotrh nw-i-i!" -iih their subjects were not unvi.-n mil. Thi riiysl marrisje act ws pav. d in 1T7I prohiWttn; any des.-end.irt of Girt n. exrept fhne whn xere "he ; issue of primes or pr. misses married Into fnrelgn houses, from conrrsrfln warriiiges before the ar of twenty- ; wlthnur the ae:it of the king signit.M nnder the gre-t seal. |