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. 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.
*He or she haes never been a Roman Catholic an haes never mairit a Roman Catholic.

## 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.

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


**Notes an soorces:*'
: * Excludit as Roman Catholics.  This exclusion will nae be affectit bi the Succession tae the Croun Act 2013.*
: * 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.*
: * leeted bi the offeecial wabsteid o the Breetish Monarchy, "Succession"
: * leeted on [[Debrett's]] wabsteid (as o 9 August 2013): [http://www.debretts.com/people/royal-family/line-succession-0 "The Line of Succession to the British Throne"] 
: * leetit bi Whitaker's Almanack 2013, London: Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-4081-7207-0, p. 21*
: * Leeted bi Debretts (1988).
:'' Succession as published on the accession o Queen Elizabeth II in 1952

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