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Question set via email
“I would appreciate if you could tell me if the following statement about inheriting the throne is true or false?
A female child can only inherit the throne if there are no male children.
believe the statement is false and think that the oldest child is the one who inherits the throne no matter of the sex.”
Thank you!
Mirta

The statement “A female child can only inherit the throne if there are no male children.” is TRUE

In Britain the crown normally passes from monarch to eldest son. As King George VI had no son, it passed to his elder daughter, now Queen Elizabeth II. If a monarch has sons, they take precedence over daughters: thus, although HR The Princess Royal is older than her brothers HRH The Duke of York and HRH The Earl of Wessex, they (and their children) precede her in the order of succession.

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www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/royal/succession.htm