DIVORCE BETWEEN CAPTAIN HAMILTON O'MALLEY AND LADY IRIS MOUNTBATTEN

Marlene Dietrich

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Captain Hamilton O'Malley
Member of the Royal Family of King George VI
Lord of Borrishoole, ancestor to Sir Samuel O'Malley Bt.
ancestor to Grania or Grace O'Malley of Greenwich UK,
1st Baroness of Borrishoole (UK Feudal tiltle/Barony).

18.10.1910-31.03.1989 

Lady Iris Mountbatten

Member of the Royal Family of King George VI

descendant and great granddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain

 and daughter of Alexander Mountbatten 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke

 and also first cousin once removed of Lord Louis Mountbatten, 

1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and she was also descendant of King George V

 and she was also niece of Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain.

13.01.1920-01.09.1982

The Divorce 1946

Divorce  grounds under 3 yrs desertion

that would of been impossible as Hamilton was in the Army

and went off leave to Iris in October 1945 as a result the Divorce would be illegal

The Trustees made an application to the Court to have the 'wife' removed from the Marriage Settlement dated 14th February 1941 made between Hamilton and Lady Iris , on 1st May 1947

valid only in UK not under American Law.  

Brief summary based on Hamilton O'Malley's Army Records

Confirmation

by the Chapel Royal the marriage between

Hamilton O'Malley and Lady Iris Mountbatten was a Royal Marriage

Letter from Divorce Office:

The Marriage Ceremony

link: The Royal Marriage between Lady Iris Mountbatten and Captain Hamilton O'Malley


links Marriage & Divorce

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 Link:-     Ecclesiastical Law - re Marriage & Divorce        
Ecclesiastical Law - re Marriage & Divorce 

Accordingly to Section II on the Matrimonial Causes Act 28th August 1857 (see below)
Divorce in the Ecclesiastical Courts (re Church marriages) ceased to be exercisable except those
that relates to Marriage License.

Royals are excluded in the Marriage Act prior to 1949 to include British foreign birth certificates.

Changes in the Matrimonial Causes Act

link:_ Amendments Matrimonial Causes Act 1857