# Which British Monarch Came From Furthest Down The List? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 14, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-british-monarch-came-from-furthest-down-the-list/589013 "2011-07-14T14:17:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-british-monarch-came-from-furthest-down-the-list/589013/81 "2011-07-18T16:40:21Z")
What if William has a daughter? Does she move to #3 and bump Harry to #4? Or does the male preference primogeniture part leave Harry at #3 and the daughter somewhere else? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-british-monarch-came-from-furthest-down-the-list/589013/82 "2011-07-18T16:57:50Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > What if William has a daughter? Does she move to #3 and bump Harry to #4? Or does the male preference primogeniture part leave Harry at #3 and the daughter somewhere else? All of William’s legitimate descendants are ahead of Harry. Example: Queen Victoria succeeded via her father [Prince Edward](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward,_Duke_of_Kent_and_Strathearn) (who died when Victoria was less than a year old), even though he had surviving younger brothers, the oldest of whom ([Ernest Augustus I of Hanover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Augustus_I_of_Hanover)) inherited the throne of Hanover, since Victoria could not succeed there (Hanover had [Salic law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law)) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-british-monarch-came-from-furthest-down-the-list/589013/83 "2011-07-18T16:58:41Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > What if William has a daughter? Does she move to #3 and bump Harry to #4? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-british-monarch-came-from-furthest-down-the-list/589013/84 "2011-07-18T17:03:47Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Ah yes! Considering that the Act of Settlement was passed during George I’s lifetime, he would have jumped more than 50 spots to number one. I think we have a winner… Probably also the luckiest of candidates as Queen Anne had _seventeen_ children, all of whom died in infancy other than one (William) who lasted till he was about 12 before popping his socks. Any of them could have put the kibosh on George had they lived. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-british-monarch-came-from-furthest-down-the-list/589013/85 "2011-07-18T17:18:19Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Yes. Ah, but if William would have 11 daughters and then 1 son (therefore the son is the youngest in his family of 12), the son would be #4? ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-british-monarch-came-from-furthest-down-the-list/589013/86 "2011-07-18T18:30:57Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Probably also the luckiest of candidates as Queen Anne had _seventeen_ children, all of whom died in infancy other than one (William) who lasted till he was about 12 before popping his socks. Any of them could have put the kibosh on George had they lived. For a woman famous for her (possibly platonic) lesbian inclinations, she sure did reproduce a lot. But perhaps the last influenced the first. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-british-monarch-came-from-furthest-down-the-list/589013/87 "2011-07-18T19:06:28Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > Ah, but if William would have 11 daughters and then 1 son (therefore the son is the youngest in his family of 12), the son would be #4? The son would be #3: Charles, William, William’s son. Harry would come after all William’s daughters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-british-monarch-came-from-furthest-down-the-list/589013.md?page=4)