Couple entangled in regulation mush after marriage in China: ‘We would never have thought of this in the Netherlands’ | Abroad

Heather Mowbray (l.) and Celine Lamee.

The Telegraph

Beijing – The Dutch Céline Lamée (41) and her British wife Heather Mowbray (42) feel abandoned by the Netherlands. The Netherlands does not recognize their marriage, which was performed by the British embassy in Beijing. Lamée: “This is just discrimination. If we were a mixed couple this wouldn’t have been a problem, but because we are lesbians, our marriage is not legal in the Netherlands.”