At the Court at Windsor Castle

THE 9th DAY OF APRIL 2008

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased, in pursuance of the provisions of an Act passed in the twelfth year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third intituled “An Act for the better regulating the Marriages of the Royal Family”, to declare Her Consent to a Contract of Matrimony between Peter Mark Andrew Phillips and Autumn Patricia Kelly, which Consent Her Majesty has caused to be signified under the Great Seal:

HER MAJESTY was thereupon pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the Instrument (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed), signifying Her Majesty’s Consent as aforesaid, be entered in the Books of the Privy Council in pursuance of the further provisions of the

aforementioned Act passed in the twelfth year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third.

Judith Simpson

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ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament intituled “An Act for the better regulating the future Marriages of the Royal Family”, it is amongst other things enacted “that no descendant of the body of His late Majesty King George the Second, Male or Female, (other than the issue of Princesses who have married, or may hereafter marry, into Foreign Families,) shall be capable of contracting Matrimony without the previous consent of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, signified under the Great Seal, and declared in Council”:

NOW KNOW YE that We have consented and do by these Presents signify Our Consent to the contracting of Matrimony between Our Most Dearly Beloved Grandson Peter Mark Andrew Phillips and Our Trusty and Well-beloved Autumn Patricia Kelly.

In Witness whereof We have caused Our Great Seal to be affixed to these Presents.

Given at Our Court at Windsor Castle the ninth day of April in the Fifty-seventh year of Our Reign.

BY THE QUEEN HERSELF SIGNED WITH HER OWN HAND

At the Court at Windsor Castle

THE 9th DAY OF APRIL 2008

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

IN COUNCIL

Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to make the following Declaration.

Judith Simpson

MY LORDS,

I declare My Consent to a Contract of Matrimony between My Most Dearly Beloved Grandson Peter Mark Andrew Phillips and Autumn Patricia Kelly, which Consent I am causing to be signified under the Great Seal and to be entered in the Books of the Privy Council .