The following FAQ's relate to two reports published by the Unit on accession and coronation, the first of which explores how ancient oaths might be revised and updated , and the second looks at what is involved in the accession ceremonies and the coronation. More FAQs on the monarchy. Charles will become King the moment the Queen dies, under the old common law rule Rex nunquam moritur i. The rule recognises that the sovereign may die, but government must carry on. To speak of the Demise of the Crown is not merely about the death of a sovereign but the transmission of the office to the heir.
Not necessarily. He is free to choose his own regnal title. Under common law the spouse of a King automatically becomes Queen. But there are two possible reasons why Camilla might not assume the title. The first is the argument voiced by the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail Online , that Camilla cannot become Queen because her civil marriage to Prince Charles was not valid.
The argument runs as follows: because the Marriage Acts from have explicitly excepted royal marriages from their provisions, the only valid marriage which a member of the royal family could contract in England was a religious marriage in the Church of England.
But if Camilla became Queen, it might provoke further legal challenges. The second possible reason is public opinion. In deference to public opinion, Camilla has not assumed the title Princess of Wales. Prince Charles will no doubt have regard to public opinion at the time of his accession, in deciding whether Camilla should become Queen; and he may also want to seek the advice of the government of the day. The fallback position is that Camilla would become Princess Consort as announced at the time of their marriage.
Charles was created Prince of Wales in when he was aged 10, with an investiture at Caernarvon Castle in As an adult, Prince William might expect to become Prince of Wales soon after his father's accession; but that will be a matter for the new King to decide because, strictly, the title is not heritable. In a statement issued by the Commonwealth Heads of Government after their retreat at Windsor Castle on 20 April , they said "We recognise the role of the Queen in championing the Commonwealth and its peoples.
This followed the express wishes of the Queen, when she said "It is my sincere wish that the Commonwealth will continue to offer stability and continuity for future generations, and will decide that one day the Prince of Wales should carry on the important work started by my father in ". Will Charles only become King once he has been proclaimed by the Accession Council; or crowned at his coronation?
No: Charles will become King the moment the Queen dies. The Accession Council merely acknowledges and proclaims that he is the new King, following the death of the Queen. Parliament is recalled for parliamentarians to take their oaths of allegiance to the new sovereign. When Edward announced his intentions to marry American Wallis Simpson in , a constitutional crisis arose. Not only did the governments of the United Kingdom oppose the marriage but so did the Dominions of the British Commonwealth.
There were multiple reasons the marriage was so opposed by all. Edward was the nominal head of the Church of England, during that time the church did not allow divorced people to remarry if their ex-spouse was still alive. If Edward married Wallis in a civil ceremony it would conflict with his ex officio role as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. If anyone had challenged her first divorce in the English courts, it may not have been recognized under English law.
The Church and English law only saw adultery to be grounds for divorce, therefore, her second and ultimately third marriages would have been considered invalid and bigamous.
Wallis was said to be an unsuitable match for the king, not only because of her two failed marriages, but many believed she was only after his money and power. During the inter-war years, the relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States was not strong, and many Britons would not have accepted an American as queen consort. It was said the Wallis had access to confidential government papers that Edward left out in the open at his Fort Belvedere residence.
Whether these were just rumours or facts, it was decided that Wallis could not become a royal consort. When did the last British King fight in a battle?
How far back can the British Royal Family trace their roots? She is the 32nd great granddaughter of King Alfred who 1, years ago was the first effective King of England. He ruled from to I thought that American Independence was in Why is it quoted as ?
The Continental Congress of the 13 American colonies declared independence in However, the war continued and independence from Britain was not achieved until the Treaty of Paris in Was George III really mad?
Later in his reign he suffered from recurrent and eventually permanent mental illness. This baffled medical science at the time, although it is now generally thought that he suffered from the inherited blood disease porphyria. He suffered his first attack in and by was unfit to rule. In his son George, Prince of Wales, became Regent for 9 years until his father died in He died in , and Edward who had no children died in So even if Edward had not abdicated Elizabeth would now be Queen.
She would have come to the throne in instead of Royals who are divorced or marry divorcees do not lose their position in the line of succession.
Edward VIII had a number of affairs with married women including Wallis Simpson who was already divorced and still married to her second husband. When George V died Prime Minister Baldwin made it clear that the Government, popular opinion in the country and the overseas Dominions now the Commonwealth nations did not approve of his plans to marry Wallis. Social attitudes towards divorce and a women looking for a third marriage were considered scandalous at the time, and if Edward married against the advice of his Ministers it would have caused the Government to resign and a constitutional crisis.
Edward chose to abdicate. Would Princess Diana have become Queen? If Prince Charles had become King during their marriage then she would have been his consort with the title Queen Diana. They divorced in and she died in a car crash in Paris on 31st August Who is Prince Henry shown as sixth in line to the Throne?
What about Prince Harry? Harry is his nickname. Is Kate Middleton the first commoner to marry an heir to the throne? The Queen's husband Prince Philip is a direct descendant of Queen Victoria, Diana's family had titled ancestry and Camilla is the granddaughter of a baron. Prince William's wife Catherine Kate nee Middleton comes from a middle class background with no aristocratic or titled connections.
She is not however the first commoner to marry a future king. Why are William and Harry referred to as Wales when their name is Windsor? Windsor is the name of the Royal House to which they belong.
Under a letter patent issued in by George V, the great-grandchildren of the monarch would no longer be princes or princesses, except for their eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. So William and Harry as the sons of Charles, Prince of Wales, and grandsons of the monarch are both princes, and Prince William's children are Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, but as Archie is the great-grandson of the monarch and Harry is the younger son of Prince Charles his son Archie is not a prince.
Prince Andrew's daughters Beatrice and Eugenie are princesses as grand-daughters of the monarch, but Eugenie's son August does not have a title. Being a prince or princess goes through the male line, so the Queen's daughter Princess Anne has the title Princess Royal, but her children Peter and Zara do not have titles.
It is traditional that they would have been made a Duke and Duchess or Earl and Countess, but it is understood that Princess Anne asked the Queen not to give her children titles so they could live as private individuals. On their marriage is was anounced that their children would not be titled Prince and Princess but as the children of an Earl, so they are Lady Louise and James Viscount Severn. As it is a Protestant Church all those in the Royal line of succession and their spouses have to be Protestants.
Neither Catholics, nor those who marry a Catholic, nor those born out of wedlock, may remain in the line of succession. Prince Charles has let it be known that when he becomes King he will take the title 'Defender of Faith' instead of' 'Defender of the Faith' to include faiths other than the established Church of England.
In Aprl the Succession to the Crown Bill changed the succession laws so that a person is not disqualified from succeeding to the Crown as a result of marrying a Roman Catholic. Why are younger brothers higher in the line of succession than their older sisters? The line of succession to the British throne used until recently the system of male primogeniture whereby younger sons have precedence over their older sisters.
While male precedence may be considered to be out of line with current 'equal-rights' thinking, it has not prevented some of the most successful and longest reigning British monarchs from being queens including Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II. It does allow the succession to inherit through the female line, so the children of daughters can succeed to the throne as is the case with the current Queen.
The French and German monarchies used a system of Salic law whereby females had no right to inherit and could not pass it to their offspring. The last time that the British throne passed to a son in precedence to a first born daughter was when Queen Victoria's son Edward VII inherited the throne over his older sister Princess Victoria. This could have significantly changed 20th century European history with the 1st World War unlikely to have happened as it did but replaced with other nationalist, republican and fascist struggles leading possibly to the downfall of both monarchies and a changed map of Europe.
In April the Succession to the Crown Bill changed the succession laws so that a person is able to marry a Roman Catholic and remain in the line of successsion, and the right of male primogeniture no longer applies to children born after 28 October It meant that if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first child had been a girl and their second a boy, male primogenture would no longer have applied and he would not have had precedence over his older sister.
However, their first child born on 22 July was a boy Prince George so it did not apply. Their second child Princess Charlotte did not lose her place when her brother Prince Louis was born. This current line of succession is shown at Line of Succession. Who was the oldest person to become king or queen? Will Prince Charles be the oldest? Prince Charles the current heir to the throne became 68 on 14th November and is now the longest waiting heir to the throne.
Edward VII became king after the death of his mother Queen Victoria in when he was 59 years and 2 months old.
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