Line o succession tae the Breetish throne

The line o succession tae the Breetish throne is the ordered sequence o aw those fowk eligible tae succeed tae the throne o the Unitit Kinrick.

Eligibility

The richt o succession is regulatit bi the Act o Settlement 1701, the Ryal Marriages Act 1772 an common law.^[1] The succession is ordered bi male-preference cognatic primogeniture. An individual is in the line o succession if the twa follaein requirements are met:

He or she is a legitimate descendant o legitimate line frae the Electress Sophia o Hanover. Legitimised childer remain ineligible.^{[n 1]}^[2]
He or she haes never been a Roman Catholic an haes never mairit a Roman Catholic.^[2]

Line o succession

The leet ablo o persons in line o succession tae the present Queen is limitit tae the Queen's descendants (nummered 1 tae 16) an ithers in the nearest collateral lines, namely, the ither eligible descendants o the sons o George V (nummered 17 tae 51). Persons shawn who are nae in line tae the throne are in italics.

No offeecial, complete version o the line o succession is currently maintained. Ony person's actual poseetion in the line o succession mey chynge as a result o events sic as births an daiths.

Keeng George V (1865–1936)
- Keeng George VI (1895–1952)
  - Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)
    - Keeng Charles III (born 1948) ^{B D W}
      - (1) The Prince o Wales (Prince William; b. 1982) ^{B D W}
        (2) Prince George o Wales (b. 2013) ^{B D W}
        (3) Princess Charlotte o Wales (b. 2015) ^{B D W}
        (4) Prince Louis o Wales (b. 2018) ^{B D W}
      - (5) The Duke o Sussex (b. 1984) ^{B D W}
        (6) Prince Archie o Sussex (b. 2019) ^{B D W}
        (7) Princess Lilibet o Sussex (b. 2021) ^{B D}
    - (8) The Duke o York (Prince Andrew; b. 1960) ^{B D W}
      - (9) Princess Beatrice (b. 1988) ^{B D W}
        (10) Sienna Mapelli-Mozzi (b. 2021) ^{B D}
      - (11) Princess Eugenie (b. 1990) ^{B D W}
        (12) August Brooksbank (b. 2021) ^{B D}
    - (13) The Duke o Edinburgh (Prince Edward; b. 1964) ^{B D W}
      - (14) Earl o Wessex (James Mountbatten-Windsor; b. 2007) ^{B D W}
      - (15) Lady Louise Windsor (b. 2003) ^{B D W}
    - (16) The Princess Ryal (Princess Anne; b. 1950) ^{B D W}
      - (17) Peter Phillips (b. 1977) ^{B D W}
        (18) Savannah Phillips (b. 2010) ^{B D W}
        (15) Isla Phillips (b. 2012) ^{B D W}
      - (16) Zara Tindall (née Phillips; b. 1981) ^{B D W}
        (17) Mia Tindall (b. 2014)^[3]^[4] ^{B D W}
        (22) Lena Tindall (b. 2018) ^{B D W}
        (23) Lucas Tindall (b. 2021) ^{B D W}
  - Princess Margaret, Coontess o Snowdon (1930–2002)^D88
    - (24) The Earl o Snowdon (David Armstrong-Jones; b. 1961) ^{D W}
      - (25) Viscoont Linley (b. 1999) ^{D W}
      - (26) Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones (b. 2002) ^{D W}
    - (27) Lady Sarah Chatto (née Armstrong-Jones; b. 1964) ^{D W}
      - (28) Samuel Chatto (b. 1996) ^{D W}
      - (29) Arthur Chatto (b. 1999) ^{D W}
- Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900–1974)¹⁹⁵²
  - (30) The Duke o Gloucester (Prince Richard; b. 1944) ^{D W}
    - (31) Earl o Ulster (Alexander Windsor; b. 1974) ^{D W}
      - (32) Lord Culloden (Xan Windsor; b. 2007) ^{D W}
      - (33) Lady Cosima Windsor (b. 2010) ^{D W}
    - (34) Lady Davina Windsor (b. 1977) ^{D W}
      - (35) Senna Lewis (b. 2010) ^{D W}^{[n 2]}
      - (36) Tāne Lewis (b. 2012) ^{D W}^{[n 2]}
    - (37) Lady Rose Gilman (née Windsor; b. 1980) ^{D W}
      - (38) Lyla Gilman (b. 2010) ^{D W}^{[n 2]}
      - (39) Rufus Gilman (b. 2012) ^{D W}^{[n 2]}
- Prince George, Duke o Kent (1902–1942)
  - (40) The Duke o Kent (Prince Edward; b. 1935) ^{D W}
    - (41)' Earl o St Andrews (George Windsor; b. 1962) ^{M D W}
      - Lord Downpatrick (Edward Windsor; b. 1988) ^{XC / D W}
      - Lady Marina Charlotte Windsor (b. 1992) ^{XC / D W}
      - (42) Lady Amelia Windsor (b. 1995) ^{D W}
    - Lord Nicholas Windsor (b. 1970) ^{XC / D W}
      - (43) Albert Windsor (b. 2007) ^{XC? / D W}^{[n 3]}
      - (44) Leopold Windsor (b. 2009) ^{XC? / D W}
      - (45) Louis Windsor (b. 2014) ^{XC? / D W}
    - (46) Lady Helen Taylor (née Windsor; b. 1964) ^{D W}^{[n 4]}
      - (47) Columbus Taylor (b. 1994) ^{D W}
      - (48) Cassius Taylor (b. 1996) ^{D W}
      - (49) Eloise Taylor (b. 2003) ^{D W}
      - (50) Estella Taylor (b. 2004) ^{D W}
  - (51) Prince Michael o Kent (b. 1942) ^{M / W}
    - (52) Lord Frederick Windsor (b. 1979) ^W
      - (53) Maud Windsor (b. 2013) ^W^[5]
      - (54) Isabella Windsor (b. 2016) ^W
    - (55) Lady Gabriella Kingston (née Windsor; b. 1981) ^W
  - (56) Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (b. 1936) ^W
    - (57) James Ogilvy (b. 1964) ^W
      - (58) Alexander Ogilvy (b. 1996) ^W
      - (59) Flora Vesteberg (née Ogilvy; b. 1994) ^W
    - (60) Marina Ogilvy (b. 1966) ^W
      - (61) Christian Mowatt (b. 1993) ^W
      - (62) Zenouska Mowatt (b. 1990) ^W

Notes an soorces:

^XC Excludit as Roman Catholics. This exclusion will nae be affectit bi the Succession tae the Croun Act 2013.

^MC These fowk wur excludit through marriage tae a Roman Catholic. This exclusion is repealed unner s. 2(2) o the Succession tae the Croun Act 2013, restorin them tae the line o succession ance it comes intae effect.

^B leeted bi the offeecial wabsteid o the Breetish Monarchy, "Succession"

^D leeted on Debrett's wabsteid (as o 9 August 2013): "The Line of Succession to the British Throne" Archived 2014-04-05 at the Wayback Machine

^W leetit bi Whitaker's Almanack 2013, London: Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-4081-7207-0, p. 21

^D88 Leeted bi Debretts (1988).^[6]

¹⁹⁵² Succession as published on the accession o Queen Elizabeth II in 1952^[7]

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