currently ranked eighth

The measure would prevent what is now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor become king in case the seven people before him were unable or unwilling to do so. In any case, this law would be approved once the police investigation opened against the former prince for misconduct in the exercise of public office concludes.

The brother of rey Carlos III He remains eighth in succession to the throne despite the fact that he was stripped of his titles, including that of prince, last October, when controversy had already broken out over his friendship with the pedophile. Jeffrey Epstein.

The proposal of the Government headed Keir Starmer It comes after some MPs, including the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party, expressed support for such a move.

Some Labor MPs, traditionally critical of the monarchy, told the BBC that they were “less convinced that the move was necessary, partly because it is highly unlikely that the former Duke of York will ever approach the throne.”

The British public corporation has recalled that a law of the London Parliament is necessary to definitively remove Mountbatten-Windsor from the throne. This measure would have to be supported by everyone else commonwealth countries that have Charles III as head of state, since it would also affect their lines of succession.

The last time the line of succession was modified by an act of Parliament was in 2013. That year, the so-called Law of Succession to the Crown restored people who had previously been excluded for having married a Catholic.

the king Edward VIII He was already removed, along with his descendants from the line of succession, by an act of Parliament in 1936, due to his abdication.

The monarch wanted to marry the American Wallis Simpsonwhen she was still married to her second husband and processing a divorce, which clashed with the Anglican church, of which the king is head, and with the government.

The then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made it clear that the marriage would lead to the resignation of the Government and a constitutional crisis, but Edward VIII refused to give up his love with Wallis.