How does the line of succession work in England?
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and in addition to what everyone else has said, you can do something completely different if you don’t like who would be monarch if you followed the rules strictly, for example, if they don’t have the right religion, like when they sent James II off to France, and brought in William III from Holland to be King. Or like when Henry III didn’t like the current king so killed him and made himself king instead.
Oh, and also, illegitimate children don’t count. Or Queen Victoria would never have been Queen, as William IV lived with an actress for 20 years and had ten children with her, and then had a 10 year marriage, but had 3 miscarriages and two children who died as children. So he was treated as childless as far as the succession went, and his niece, Victoria, became Queen in place of any of his own surviving children, as they weren’t legitimate.
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