Standard marriage laws apply, so you need to be over the age of 18 if you want to get married without parental consent. In Europe, first-cousin marriages were quite common until the 19th Century.

But in the UK, there is no legal ban on two cousins having a relationship or getting married. One caller rang into LBC to "tell her tale" of falling in love with her first cousin - who she later ...

It can get very complicated ... and Albert Einstein have in common? They all married their first cousins. You’d think Darwin of all people would know better. After all, mating with a close ...

In December, Conservative MP Richard Holden called for first-cousin marriage to be banned in the UK. Introducing the proposals in Parliament, the MP for Basildon and Billericay said the children of ...

Four years ago, a 23-year-old man and 17-year-old girl, cousins who live in the same compound in Embu West Sub County, attempted to elope so that they could get married. Attempts by the family ...

"I think that's what makes people think that's not the norm, that young Pakistanis who are born in Britain, they don't think it's normal to get married to your first cousin and they might find it ...