# If Edward VIII had children ...

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 30, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-edward-viii-had-children/580253 "2011-04-30T03:14:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-edward-viii-had-children/580253/21 "2011-05-01T02:24:46Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> Any children of Edward VIII were excluded by the [Abdication Act of 1936](http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/3/section/1):
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> Effect of His Majesty’s declaration of abdication.
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> > 1. (2) His Majesty, His issue, if any, and the descendants of that issue, shall not after His Majesty’s abdication have any right, title or interest in or to the succession to the Throne, and section one of the Act of Settlement shall be construed accordingly.
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> So once he abdicated, his brother Albert George became king, to be succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth. Even if the Windsors had had children, those children would not have bumped Elizabeth from the line of succession.

> [@Baffle](#):
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> That’s not what the act says.

No that’s exactly what the law says; any right title or interest in the succession due Edward is removed from him and all successors. If they have a right etc. through someone else, it is not removed. It does not forbid them from being king/queen. It just says they can’t claim to be monarch because they are descended form Eddy.

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**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:** [May 1, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-edward-viii-had-children/580253/22 "2011-05-01T03:16:31Z")

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> [@md2000](#):
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> If they have a right etc. through someone else, it is not removed.

That’s not what it says, though. It says that none of his descendants shall “have **any** right, title or interest in or to the succession to the Throne.”

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