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A prince in all but name

23 May 2019 / Michael L Nash
Issue: 7841 / Categories: Features , Constitutional law
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A child who is the great-grandson of a reigning Queen could never be anything but royal, as Michael Nash explains

The birth and naming of a son to Prince Harry and his wife Meghan is certainly in keeping with the line they are taking within the Royal Family. Whichever line they were to take it is inescapable that they are part of the most famous and elevated family in the world: who are their competitors?

One of the most interesting spin-offs from the population living longer than it did is that we get to know our great-grandchildren, something vouchsafed only to women generally before. Thus Queen Victoria did know her great-grandchildren, but George V and George VI did not. Queen Elizabeth II and her nonagenarian husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, now have eight great-grandchildren. This may explain why George V in 1917 did not provide for the contingency of great-grandchildren, with regard to titles, although there is one important clause in the Letters Patent issued on December 11th of that

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