# Have any Brit line-of-succession royals wound up in America? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 6, 2013, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-brit-line-of-succession-royals-wound-up-in-america/649465 "2013-02-06T06:55:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Malden\_Capell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malden_capell/32/5274_2.png) [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-brit-line-of-succession-royals-wound-up-in-america/649465/21 "2013-02-07T14:33:06Z")
Heh, I am unsure whether **Saint Cad** ’s ‘typo’ is a typo at all… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-brit-line-of-succession-royals-wound-up-in-america/649465/22 "2013-02-07T14:43:16Z")
I had ancestors from the Mecklenburg region of Prussia. One or two of them may have been royal fuckups, but nothing close to being in line for anything other than bread. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-brit-line-of-succession-royals-wound-up-in-america/649465/23 "2013-02-08T06:50:22Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > My understanding is that it is not retroactive and will begin with the Duck and Duchess of Cambridge’s first child. The birth order part won’t be retroactive (well, it will be, but only to October 2011), but the law will also remove the bar on succession from anyone who previously married a Catholic, so the line of succession will get a bit longer when it passes. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-brit-line-of-succession-royals-wound-up-in-america/649465/24 "2013-02-08T07:10:59Z")
[QUOTE=colonial] Here are the 1345 {snip} [/QUOTE] Bad news. Even though the web page states it was last modified on January 27, 2013, the list was out of date by 2010. That aside, I had fun looking up folks who were born before Elizabeth II. Among them were three names of note: 450th in the line of succession: The Countess Mountbatten of Burma (b. 1924), daughter of Lord Mountbatten, son of Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven (confirmed alive). Mother of the source of my drag name: Norton Knatchbull, who is 463rd in the line of succesion. 480th in line: Elizabeth II’s husband, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921), grandson of Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven through her daughter, Princess Alice. 1033th in line: Karoline Matilde Vlangali-Handjeri (born in _ **1900** _!!!), great-great-granddaughter of Louise Auguste of Denmark through her son Friedrich Emil August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and the oldest person on that list (at the time the list was created). I have not been able to confirm if she is alive. Also, I saw a brief post on a genealogy message board that claimed that she was in the line of succession during _Victoria’s_ reign. Wow! ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-brit-line-of-succession-royals-wound-up-in-america/649465/25 "2013-02-08T16:16:33Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > … > > 1033th in line: Karoline Matilde Vlangali-Handjeri (born in _ **1900** _!!!), great-great-granddaughter of Louise Auguste of Denmark through her son Friedrich Emil August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and the oldest person on that list (at the time the list was created). I have not been able to confirm if she is alive. Also, I saw a brief post on a genealogy message board that claimed that she was in the line of succession during _Victoria’s_ reign. Wow! She will die an old, and very bitter, woman. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-brit-line-of-succession-royals-wound-up-in-america/649465.md?page=1)