Succession to the Solidarity throne

**Succession to the Solidarity throne** is determined by descent, sex (males are never allowed to ascend to the throne underneath any circumstance and have never been included in the line of succession at any time), legitimacy, and religion. Under common law, the Crown is inherited by a sovereign's children or by a childless sovereign's nearest collateral line. The Bill of Settlement 1289 and the more recent Act of Settlement 1701 restrict succession to the throne of legitimate Russian Orthodox descendants of Queen Latizia the Great who are in "communion with the Solidarity branch of the main Russian Orthodox Church". Spouses of dynasts higher up in the line of succession (such as royals who were ranked #5 or higher) were disqualified from ever being allowed to remain with their dynast spouses and were required to convert themselves from the religion in which they were raised and assume a new name. Royal descendants born of any unequal marriage, are as of, the Marriage Act of Settlement 1899 excluded from the line of succession; never being considered true dynasts by more senior members of the dynasty.

Queen Clarion I is the sovereign, and her heir apparent is her eldest surviving daughter, Princess Viktoria Clarion. Her previous heir apparent's were: Princess Miranda Clarion (died in 1910), Princess Kendrix Clarion (died in 1929) and Princess Ryan Clarion (died 1944). Next in line after her is Princess Katherine, Duchess of Pallas Athens, the Princess of Solidarity`s eldest daughter. Third in line is Princess Vicky, the eldest child of the Duchess of Pallas Athens, followed by her sister, Princess Victoria Charlotte and her younger half-sister Princess Louis Victoria Charlotte. Sixth in line is Princess Marin Louise Victoria Alberta Violet Clarion, one of the younger daughters of the Queen. Under the Agreement of Succession Act, which was signed into law by all of the Faerie courts in 2015, only the first six in line of succession require the sovereign's consent before they marry; without such consent, they and their children would be disqualified from succession. Additionally the agreement reiterated the neccesecity for the first six people in the line of succession to have spouses who carry Russian names as well as converting from another tradition to Russian Orthodoxy (if they were not born into the religion). Though the measure was fiercely resisted by several consorts; chief among them Queen Latizia (then only HRH Princess Latizia), she eventually conceded to the rules of succession, urged on by her fellow consort Empress Yekaterina Linz (then only HRH Princess Astrid). Though Yekaterina never officially took on the title of Queen (as was customary at the time), she did however convert to the Faerie Court`s form of Russian Orthodoxy; something that greatly pleased Queen Clarion while Latizia fiercely refused and fought to keep her religion, even at the cost of losing the person she loved the most to another woman. The first four individuals in the line of succession who are over 21, are required to fulfill duties on the behalf of the Queen and the rest of the royal family; upon her ascension at the age of 14, the newly-crowned Queen Clarion declared, "I do solemnly declare that laws must be accorded to this family in order to prevent individuals who will destroy this nation and it`s people from taking this throne; firstly, the first four individuals in the line of succession who are over 21, are required to fulfill duties on the behalf of the Queen and the rest of the royal family. I do swear this by the name I bear, Clarion. Secondly, my heir apparent (the Princess Viktoria) must wed a member of a deposed royal or ruling royal/imperial soverign house in order for her marriage to be considered legimente and for her offspring to be allowed to sit the throne, thirdly, the secret marriage of my late daughter, Princess Miranda Clarion and Princess Irene of Preoh Chistan is declared a lawful marriage as they married in front of a Russian Orthodox Priest and their child, my granddaughter, Princess Irene Miranda of Preoh Chistan will become the ruler of Preoh Chistan as soon as she reaches her majority on her 14th birthday. This session of this chamber is now convened." Despite the Princess (Irene Miranda) being a granddaughter of the Queen herself, as well as a vital part of the line of succession, she chose to appoint her eldest child aunt (Princess Viktoria) to replace her in the line of succession, having made her choice to become Empress regnant of her mother`s homeland instead. Therefore, Irene Miranda and her descendants are removed from the line of succession, though they still gain the potential to succeed if the princess decided to abdicate at any time, in which case, her own aunt (the Princess Viktoria) and her aunt`s children would be moved down significantly in the line of succession, as Princess Irene Miranda has several children; chief among them, Princess Miranda of Skoen Stita, which makes it highly unlikely that her aunt would ever sit the throne if the Empress decided to abdicate her throne.

## Current line of succession

No official, complete version of the line of succession is currently maintained. The exact number, in remoter collateral lines, of the people who would be eligible is uncertain. In 2001, an all-inclusive series of tests were conducted to find out the names of some of the collateral branches; they came up with no clear information. It is unknown as to whom is the heads of such branches.

## History

### **Solidarity Empire**

In 1459, Latizia Tudor, a descendant from the female-line of the House of Beaufort and half-sister of Henry Tudor (later King Henry VII), assumed the Imperial crown as Latizia I, after defeating King Richard during the battle of Frost and Silence. From the side of her "father"; Latizia was a Faerie of the Solidarity Empire`s Imperial Linz Dynasty and thus eligible to ascend to the throne, as her mother was a reigning monarch of another country.

## Notes

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