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How far removed do you have to be in line of succession before you become a normal person? When do they stop receiving money from the government. I googled and Prince Edward is the youngest and 13th in line. the odds of him ever taking the throne… Are his children considered royalty or will they have to get normal jobs? What about his grandchildren? At what point in the lineage will the descendants be forced to find a job as, I don’t know, an engineer at British Petroleum and nobody cares that their great grandmother was the queen, or flipping burgers at McDonald’s?
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