law as it stood in 1603, the 9th Earl of Jersey ’s divorce was not valid, and therefore both his remarriage during his ex-wife's lifetime was null and void, and the children of his third marriage illegitimate. Consequently, the current holder of the Stanley claim to the throne of England is the only child of the 9th Earl ’s first marriage, Lady Caroline Ogilvy (née Child Villiers). [ 8 ] By a twist of fate her husband's family are themselves highly ranked in the (accepted) line of succession to the British throne, with Lady Caroline's nephew James Ogilvy being fortieth in line. There is doubt of the legitimacy of Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp . Certainly James I regarded the Seymour line as legitimate, and based his own succession on his right by primogeniture, ignoring the Will of Henry VIII . However, the Seymours were placed ahead of the Stanleys in James' Line of Succession. The recent death of one of Seymour's descendants had her, rather than Frances Stanley's descendants, listed as the heir to the Mary Tudor claim. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] When Franz dies, his claim on the English and Scottish crowns [ 14 ] will pass to his younger brother Max . A final claim comes from Peter Pininski [ 15 ] who claims descent from the legitimised descendants of Charles Edward Stuart alias "the Young Pretender", through the Rohan or Roehenstadt family. However, his claim is disputed by scholars who point out