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To: Philo-Junius

Not really; one can succeed a monarch without being a direct descendant of that monarch, so long as one is on the royal family.


17 posted on 10/11/2008 9:02:57 AM PDT by Oyarsa
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To: Oyarsa

By English precedent, parliament would have established the succession, which could as likely passed through Martha’s children, adopted by George.

Once that line daughtered out, the Stuarts would have been as likely successors as Lawrence’s descendants.


21 posted on 10/11/2008 9:14:10 AM PDT by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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