# What non-British person is highest in the line of succession?

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**Created:** [July 6, 2010, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-british-person-is-highest-in-the-line-of-succession/545685 "2010-07-06T05:52:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-british-person-is-highest-in-the-line-of-succession/545685/21 "2010-07-10T15:13:56Z")

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> [@Polycarp](#):
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> Therefore the correct answer by British law is $13, David, Viscount Linley, who would begin the House of Armstrong-Jones.

Armstrong-Jones? Well let’s hope that never happens, sounds more like a auditing agency than a royal house.

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