The Home Secretary told the House of Commons that monarchs since the Acts of Union had consistently used the higher of the English and Scottish ordinals, which in the applicable four cases has been the English ordinal.
Sekretaris Dalam Negeri berkata kepada Dewan Rakyat bahwa para penguasa monarki semenjak Acts of Union telah konsisten menggunakan ordinal Inggris dan Skotlandia, dimana ordinal Inggris terjadi empat kali.