Give It Up

Prince Charles was told Sunday to give up his lover or give up his claim to the throne. “We are not going to have a confessed adulterer as supreme head of the Church of England,” said the Rev. David Streeter, director of the Church Society, the senior evangelical body of the state Church of England. Since his divorce from Princess Diana, Charles, 48, has spent a great deal of time with Camilla Parker Bowles, 49, who was divorced in 1995. There are no legal obstacles to Charles becoming king when Queen Elizabeth II dies, even with a divorced woman as his queen, constitutional experts say. But many believe Britain is not ready for Queen Camilla, despite the huge social changes since Charles’s great-uncle, Edward VIII, had to abdicate in 1936 so he could marry a twice-divorced American, Wallis Simpson.