Article: Double trouble and strife; answers to correspondents.

Byline: JAMES BLACK;CHARLES LEGGE

QUESTION When Prince Charles becomes King, will he be the only monarch since Henry VIII to have married more than once?

JAMES II (king between 1685-88) was born on October 14, 1633. He first married Anne (b 1637), eldest daughter of Edward Hyde, on September 3, 1660.

She died in 1671, and James went on to wed Mary D'Este (1658-1718), the only daughter of Alfonso IV, Duke of Modena, two years later on September 30, 1673.

More controversial was the future George IV (king between 1820-1830). Born on August 12, 1762, he married Mary Anne Fitzherbert (1756-1837) in her drawing room at Park Lane on December ...

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