# Royal succession laws changed in UK

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**Created:** [October 28, 2011, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-succession-laws-changed-in-uk/601060 "2011-10-28T10:01:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-succession-laws-changed-in-uk/601060/55 "2011-10-29T11:39:10Z")

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> [@Obesity in America revisited](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obesity-in-america-revisited/70563/44):
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> (The current King of the United Kingdom would be [this guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Friedrich,_Prince_of_Prussia).)

Not that the Daily Mail or Wiki are the be all and end all of accurate information, but:  
[If the change in British law, allowing eldest daughters of the monarch to accede to the throne, had been passed in the time of Queen Victoria, Princess Marie Cécile would be the current British queen, according to British newspaper the Daily Mail](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Marie_C%C3%A9cile_of_Prussia)

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