Original sentence: History has rendered this amendment null as Edward VIII died without issue in 1972, at which point the Crown would have passed to his niece Elizabeth II.However, there have been noteworthy alternative claimants to the Crown in English history, and it is of scholarly interest to trace what the succession to the Crown would have been had they succeeded in attaining the throne (although such speculation necessarily assumes that all parties involved would still have married the same people and had the same children).The Crown has passed according to this law ever since, save an amendment passed in 1936 that any descendants of Edward VIII would have no claim whatsoever to the Crown.The succession to the Crown of the United Kingdom is currently determined by the Act of Settlement 1701, which enacted that, should William III and Queen Anne both die without issue (as, in the event, they did), the crown would be settled on Sophia of Hanover and her Protestant heirs
Edited sentence: As monarch, William III assented to the Act of Settlement 1701, which set the laws for succession of the Crown should, after his and then-Princess Anne’s deaths, neither have issue.History has rendered this amendment null as Edward VIII died without issue in 1972, at which point the Crown would have passed to his niece Elizabeth.The Crown has passed following this law ever since without incidence until the abdication of Edward VIII.The law was then amended so that any descendants of Edward VIII would have no claim whatsoever to the Crown.Though the following claims to the Crown of United Kingdom are of scholarly interest, they in fact hold no legal basis as the last monarch to gain the English, Scottish, and Irish crowns by right of conquest was William III of England