Another royal convert.Lord Nicholas Windsor Lord Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan Windsor (born 25 July 1970) is a member of the extended British Royal Family. He is the youngest child of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, and a great-grandson of George V. , younger son of the Duke and Duchess
The Duke and Duchess of Boxford are people featured in the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends TV Series. of Kent, has forfeited his 25th place in line to the British throne by leaving the Church of England Church of England: see England, Church of. and becoming a Catholic. His mother, who became a Catholic in 1994, was the highest profile convert of recent times. His brother, the Earl of St. Andrews, is also ruled out of the line of succession Noun 1. line of succession - the order in which individuals are expected to succeed one another in some official position line - a formation of people or things one behind another; "the line stretched clear around the corner"; "you must wait in a long line at the because he married a Catholic; and their uncle, Prince Michael of Kent
According to the Act of Settlement of 1701, no person can accede to the throne, or remain in the line of succession, if he or she marries or becomes a Catholic. Anyone who "shall profess the popish religion or shall marry a papist" is disbarred, the Act states. The Act has recently been the subject of considerable controversy because of its discriminatory nature, and some senior officials in the Church of England, including the Archbishop of York, would like to see the prohibition removed. |
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