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.

Anyway, OP, you've misunderstood, and been corrected.
Bear in mind that people don't read the whole thread so will continue to correct you, so ask MN to delete?

Charles is the eldest. Check your facts before posting!!

How does that make the previous posters statement not true? James and Louise were both born before that date.

I do think she'd make the best royal put of her siblings but she is younger than Charles and until Prince George was about to be born male heirs took priority over female ones so she's behind her younger brothers (it would be complicated to change retrospectively I guess?).

Ffs 🤦‍♀️ have a day off

Given that the Queen was 'in post ' for 70 + years and did a fab job I find it bizarre that it took so long for the line of succession to be changed. She seems to have been considerably better than alot of the men who preceded her.

Those surprised that the rules didn't change before William was born might be forgetting quite how archaic the institution still was then. Wasn't it always heavily suggested that teenage Diana was mainly pushed as a suitable wife for 30 something Charles as she was a virgin.
It may still be incredibly old fashioned and steeped in many outdated protocols but it's progressed a lot in the last few decades!

But how do we know she did a fab job if we have nothing in modern times to compare with?

Thank you, I was indeed misremembering. My mother would not have made that mistake!

Princess VIctoria (who indeed is the last time) is an interesting one given that she became Queen/EMpress of Prussia/Germany and mother of Kaiser Wilhelm who was in charge of Germany in the First World War. So much would potentially be different!

Queen Victoria herself became Queen as she was literally the only legitimate heir of all the children of GEorge III following the death of the only daughter of GEorge IV

Yeah, God forbid a thread should be based on actual facts rather than something plucked out of thin air. Those pesky facts getting in the way of a good froth!

Of course Anne is the oldest. I only voted “you are being unreasonable” because it was unreasonable that you didn’t know until today that she was inevitably passed over by her younger brother until the law changed. So Charles gets to be king. And since Charles only had sons, William gets to be king. And since William’s first child was a boy, George gets to be king. The first time the law will come into effect in practice is if George has a girl first.

Of course Anne is the oldest.

Oh dear.

Yep, I got that wrong. Charles is the oldest. Apologies.

The phrase "today years old" makes you seem even dafter.

Do you not think she may have got the message during the first 9 pages of the thread? 🙄 she even said way back that she realises she was wrong but yet people insist on repeating “you’re wrong!” … Christ, how pointless

Well you keep coming back banging the same drum - isn’t that just as pointless?

Please, as a nation, can we stop with "Lilibet"?

dry heave

@InPraiseOfBacchus Lilibet is the given name of Harry's younger child. Whether you like the name or not, that is a fact.

What name do you think "we" should use in place of the given name chosen by her parents?

I’m banging the same drum in response to people who can’t wait to give the OP another kick in the shin. It’s bullying behaviour.

It's her name...

Well they did also announce that she would be known as Lili, so perhaps we should go with that

Or, we could use her given name.

Well we could, but isn't it better to go with the name that the parents have expressly said will be the 'known by' name (see oodles of threads passim, usually about MILs, who don't follow parents' clearly stated preferences)