I heard this story on the radio, while on my daily commute to work today.
This is pretty crazy, what would you do in their situation?
The harrowing story of twins who were separated at birth and married each other without realizing they were brother and sister was revealed today.
When the unnamed couple realized the shocking truth about their relationship, they had their marriage annulled at a secret High Court hearing. A judge ruled the union was legally invalid.
The couple's plight was revealed by the former Liberal Democrat MP Lord Alton, who is fighting for children to have greater rights to know the identity of their biological parents.
The peer, who raised the twins' story during a House of Lords debate on the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill, said: "I learned of this heartbreaking story from the High Court judge who dealt with the case.
"We were having a casual conversation about the potential problems for donor- conceived children accidentally marrying each other and he said this could also happen in naturally conceived children."
The judge told Lord Alton that the twins had been parted at birth and adopted.
Neither knew they had a twin and when they met as adults they did not realize they were related but felt "an inevitable attraction".
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When the unnamed couple realized the shocking truth about their relationship, they had their marriage annulled at a secret High Court hearing. A judge ruled the union was legally invalid.
The couple's plight was revealed by the former Liberal Democrat MP Lord Alton, who is fighting for children to have greater rights to know the identity of their biological parents.
The peer, who raised the twins' story during a House of Lords debate on the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill, said: "I learned of this heartbreaking story from the High Court judge who dealt with the case.
"We were having a casual conversation about the potential problems for donor- conceived children accidentally marrying each other and he said this could also happen in naturally conceived children."
The judge told Lord Alton that the twins had been parted at birth and adopted.
Neither knew they had a twin and when they met as adults they did not realize they were related but felt "an inevitable attraction".
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This is pretty crazy, what would you do in their situation?
