Autumn's engagement to Peter Phillips was announced by Buckingham Palace on 28 July 2007, and the Queen subsequently gave her consent to the union, as required by the Royal Marriages Act 1772, after a meeting of her British Privy Council on 9 April of the following year. Phillips proposed to her with "a platinum ring containing an oval centre diamond with more diamonds on either side". Prior to the marriage, Autumn, raised Roman Catholic and educated at Catholic foundation schools, was received into the Church of England (Anglican), which does not re-confirm people who were raised in churches acknowledging the Apostolic succession. Had she remained Catholic after her marriage, under the provisions of the Act of Settlement 1701 her husband would have lost his place in the line of succession to the throne. That fact received widespread press coverage and drew attention to the Act of Settlement's bar on Catholics ascending to the throne, and prompted calls in both Canada and the United Kingdom for the respective prime ministers to consider the issue. She did not, however, give up her Canadian citizenship. Some reported unease was also caused in royal circles when Autumn and Phillips were interviewed and photographed by "Hello!" magazine, for an apparent fee of £500,000.