Wälsungs in Shropshire

The NYT has the story.

A brother and sister who were parted at birth and adopted by different families married without knowing of their biological relationship, and then won an annulment, a leading anti-abortion campaigner, David Alton, said in the House of Lords on Friday.

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A parliamentary transcript of the peer’s December speech, published this week, quoted him as saying that the couple were never told they had been born as twins. “They met later and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences,” he said.