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Originally Posted by Chris
I mean no, it’s not as if they’ve ever used a Dutch Duke to chase the reigning monarch out of the country and declare him abdicated in absentia is it. Or drag a king to the tower and hack his bonce off.
Thankfully Parliament has more recently chosen to pass legislation in order to ensure the heir is determined by law rather than by pure birthright. Three times, most recently in 2013.
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Yes indeed, Parliament, effectively the Commons, is legally ‘supreme’. The next monarch is one that Parliament decides will be. Naturally it will be William because they have no reason to deny it?
Removing Andrew from the line of succession does require an Act of Parliament, but as he is, what, 8th in line, it doesn’t really seem necessary. Of course is things were to change due to some really unlikely catastrophic issue then I suspect that Parliament would act so fast it will make his head spin!