I was today years old when I realised Princess Anne should be Queen

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She's the eldest child. The law has changed now.
Even Zara Philips is behind her little brother in line to the throne. Wtf.

That plus males were not so liable to being controlled.

One of the reasons Elizabeth I didn't marry despite her government begging her to for years was she didn't want to be controlled by her husband or have her crown usurped.

In the past it made complete sense for the security of a country to have a male ruler. In fact the majority of European monarchies adopted Salic Law which meant a woman was completely barred from ruling as sovereign under any circumstances to safeguard the country.

Many people would have welcomed Anne as Queen. Had Charles abdicated before he married Andrew would have been next in line.
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Actually she wasn't, Charles and Anne had already been born when The Queen became Queen so Margaret would have been after them.

YABVVVVVVVVVVVVVVU for using "I was today years old", regardless of anything else

I know this thread is nonsense but I think Anne would be brilliant as Queen.

It has been changed. It was changed when Kate was pregnant so that the first child of whatever sex takes priority.

This is all very easily google-able. And the Wessex children are never going to have a claim to the throne, so totally academic.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Wales' youngest was named Louis because hopefully we'll never have a King Louis (the King of the Swingers, the jungle VIP) on the throne. 😃

Lady Louise is still behind her younger brother so no that hasn't been changed

I was only corrected recently, too. Having always known a queen and a queen mother, and there being notable queens in history (which I have never studied in any depth) it didn’t occur to me, until it was recently pointed out that had something happened to Charles in childhood, we would now have Andrew, and there is nothing anyone could do about it.

I adore Anne and think she’d be excellent, and despite being mildly anti-monarchy as a system I rather like the Royals we have. Clearly, we have to have to some sort of head of department, and looking at the current lot, I would actually rather have most of the current Royal Family, than the bloody cabinet! Ironic, given that we choose the cabinet and inherit the RF. They do seem to appreciate their privilege and show more empathy as a rule.

Anne has divorced too!

I like Anne, but don't see how she's any more deserving than Charles. The idea that Charles has committed offences which should prevent him being King is weird. Look at the Kings of the past- some of their morals were truly despicable, whereas Charles seems like a man with his heart in the right place.

They do. You'll see it on Twitter, too.

Fancy opening a thread and getting the information totally wrong!

I was only corrected recently, too. Having always known a queen and a queen mother, and there being notable queens in history (which I have never studied in any depth) it didn’t occur to me

The queen mother didn't inherit the throne. She was in the same position as Camilla (married to the king), rather than being heir herself.

It goes around with "and just like that"

Hardly matters by the time you get to Louise, does it?

You'd need a repeat of the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre for her or her brother to get within sniffing distance of the throne.

I would LOVE Queen Anne. She’d be brilliant I think.

I’m a bit surprised at people not knowing males inherit over their older sisters. It’s not just the royals, it’s all hereditary titles. In a landed family, the oldest son (or closest male relative if no sons) inherits the title. It’s the whole basis of the first series of Downton Abbey!

I agree. She's the best of the lot, never puts a foot wrong or does anything embarrassing.

Unless you count the time she fell off in an equestrian competition and you didn't need to be a lip reader to see she said "Fuck!". But I think that's perfectly reasonable especially as, iirc, it was a water jump and she ended up in the water*.

And she appears to live a relatively modest life by royal standards. I was quite pleased when I saw some pictures of her at home, and her house looks like a fairly normal middle-class granny's house.

*Disclaimer: it was a long time ago and I may be conflating two different events

correct I should not have written when she went to the throne. I am still in another thread in my head where we were discussing where Philip was on the line to inherit :)

Tane and Senna Lewis (born 2012 and 2010) were the first to be affected as their order in the line of succession switched when the Act came into force. They are way down at around 36th in line now though.

If she had been heir though her life would have been completely different. She may well have been forced into being a different person. With 3 brothers she would never have been expected to inherit the throne.

Personally, I would care for Anne as queen. I don't get the love for her here on MN.

With a 2022 view, it seems sensible to say that Anne should be after Lilibet but I also get that with 1950 eyes when Anne was born this was not the "lie of the land"

Personally, I think it should have been changed when Diana was expecting William but obviously, that would not have made any difference as Diana and Charles had only boys.

The number of people who get their understanding of history and the monarchy from The Crown is very worrying. It's entertainment, not a documentary.

There is a Youtube channel called UsefulCharts which talks through various family trees and how titles etc work. He has just upated his British royal family tree if you want to see it set out step by step. The original video goes to about number 50 in the line of succession.

So true, they've all been shaped by the expectations, restrictions and relative freedom that they had.