# Why Would \[Any Quasi-Important Briton\] Want A Peerage?

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**Created:** [October 20, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-any-quasi-important-briton-want-a-peerage/973553 "2022-10-20T15:21:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-any-quasi-important-briton-want-a-peerage/973553/81 "2022-10-28T01:21:10Z")

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> [@UDS1](#):
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> Impossible to say. He has to attain age 18 (which will happen in 2037) and be domiciled in the UK. But, even then, his becoming a counsellor of state depends on people currently ahead of him in the line of succession dying (or being disqualified), and on further progeny of the Cambridges not joining the line of succession (because if they do they will be ahead of him). He may never rise high enough in the line of succession to be a counsellor of state.

Yes, on looking it up - I though he was older but Will’s 3 kids are older than Archie. So unless William is king and Harry takes a pass, he won’t be a counsellor.

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**Author:** ![UDS1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47774/32.png) [@UDS1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS1)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-any-quasi-important-briton-want-a-peerage/973553/82 "2022-10-28T02:43:19Z")

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> [@md-2000](#):
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> Yes, on looking it up - I though he was older but Will’s 3 kids are older than Archie. So unless William is king and Harry takes a pass, he won’t be a counsellor.

Well he _could_, if some of his Cambridge cousins remove themselves from the line of succession by marrying without royal approval, becoming a Catholic or, God forbid, dying. But these are fairly remote contingencies.

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