Where would Brits replace the Queen from?

Factual Questions
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Where???

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Heh. Check out the following:
http://members.tripod.com/~Klausjames/adam2.html
http://members.tripod.com/~Klausjames/adam1.html
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~lnbdds/home/saxon.htm
http://davidwu10.drivinthebus.com/egbert.html
http://www.ldolphin.org/cooper/ch6.html
http://www.maulefamily.com/dc_alfredgreat.htm

And that’s just from part of the first page of Googling for “house of wessex” and “descent.”

I can trace my lineage back to these folks two different ways. And I’m not anybody special. Almost anyone with Ha®rington, Clinton, Rice, Chaffee, or several other surnames in their ancestry can probably do the same.

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:slight_smile: You misunderstand. I meant, where are these English Isles you speak of?

Unless you mean the Isle of Wight?

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So while we’re on the general subject…

It’s clear what happened to the Scotts throne. What about the Royals of Wales and Ireland?

If it were not for those evil Englanders, who would now occupy those thrones?

Come to think of it, George Washington was apparently asked if he wanted to be King of the USA. Does he have a living direct descendant who would be King today, if he had accepted the offer?

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No. Washington died childless.

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For Wales, see Cecil’s column How can I become Prince of Wales? Cecil writes that “Edward I acquired [the title] for the English royal family by killing the last Welsh Prince of Wales in 1282.” Evidently Wales was only a principality, not a kingdom. I don’t know whether there was a hereditary succession or, if so, who the successor would be.

For Ireland, see Erin’s Blood Royal: The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland by Peter Beresford Ellis.

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My understanding is that Wales didn’t have a system of primogeniture, but of division amongst the male heirs. That meant that every time a Welsh prince died, his territory was divvied up between his sons, who tended to squabble over who got what. That was one of the contributing factors to the English success in conquering Wales - there wasn’t a strong Welsh government, unlike the centralised English monarchy.

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Polycarp - yes, the only Scottish King William prior to William of Orange was William I, also called William the Lion. He reigned for nearly 50 years (1165-1214), a prodigious lifespan in those days, and was the king who adopted the red lion as the symbol of the Scots monarchy.

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Should I have said “British Isles”? How about “Britain”?

I didn’t want to say “Kings of England,” since there were a number of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in existence in the millennium prior to the Conquest, including the kingdoms of Essex, Kent, Mercia, Sussex, Wessex, East Anglia, etc.

I’m not sure when there was a first “King of England.” Alfred the Great (871-899) is usually listed first. His grandfather, Egbert, was King of Wessex, and later conquered Kent and Mercia. Eventually enough of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were consolidated enough to refer to England as a political entity.

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Nope. You just have to be:

  1. the next in line in descent from the Electress Sophia,

  2. Protestant, not Roman Catholic, and,

  3. willing to enter into communion with the Church of England as soon as you ascend to the throne.

See the Act of Settlement, 1701:

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The first king of England is nearly always listed as Alfred, though Egbert was the first to hold the title “King of all England” (though sometimes Alfred’s Grandson- Aethelstan is given this honour). Though IIRC none of them actually managed to completely rule the whole of England.