The case came before a judge, sitting in private, in the High Court Family Division where, according to Lord Alton, "he had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation". Marriages can be annulled in cases where there is a "prohibited degree of consanguinity" - blood relationship. It was only after they married, according to Lord Alton, that they became aware of the "appalling" truth and sought to have their union dissolved. Neither knew they had a twin and when they met as adults they did not realise they were related but felt "an inevitable attraction".
The judge told Lord Alton that the twins had been parted at birth and adopted. "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 naturallyconceived children." The peer, who raised the twins' story during a House of Lords debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, said: "I learned of this heartbreaking story from the High Court judge who dealt with the case. 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. A judge ruled the union was legally invalid.
When the unnamed couple realised the shocking truth about their relationship, they had their marriage annulled at a secret High Court hearing. The harrowing story of twins who were separated at birth and married each other without realising they were brother and sister was revealed today.
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