Who becomes King of England?

Which of these would get the throne?


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I considered saying "of Britain" but suspected someone might go "the Irish stick their tongues in your general direction."

Yeah, because it's not like the Britain consists of more than England, or anything. :rolleyes:
To be pedantic 'Britain' is England and Wales, 'Great Britain' adds Scotland and the UK includes Northern Ireland.
Presumably Americans would be happy for Brits to talk of the President of Texas, or Alaska because they are the biggest bits of the Union. :D

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Keenir

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Yeah, because it's not like the Britain consists of more than England, or anything.

in my experience, I can be - and have been - shot down for just about anything, so I can be overly cautious at times.

To be pedantic 'Britain' is England and Wales, 'Great Britain' adds Scotland and the UK includes Northern Ireland.

ah. I hadn't been aware of the difference "Great" made. thank you.
 
Conflating 'England' with the UK can be a sensitive point for a lot of Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish (and indeed some Cornish) people. It's like calling the Netherlands 'Holland', or the old USSR 'Russia' - a common error which we're all guilty of ocasionally.
 
The relevant provision of His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936:
(1) Immediately upon the Royal Assent being signified to this Act the Instrument of Abdication executed by His present Majesty on the tenth day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, set out in the Schedule to this Act, shall have effect, and thereupon His Majesty shall cease to be King and there shall be a demise of the Crown, and accordingly the member of the Royal Family then next in succession to the Throne shall succeed thereto and to all the rights, privileges, and dignities thereunto belonging.
In the last part you could have had [name] instead of 'the member of the Royal Family then next in succession to the Throne' and legally that person would have become King, or Queen, immediately assent was signified (which means announced in Parliament). Or you could stop after Crown, and then the Duke of York would inherit, just as happened from the actual wording. There was absolutely no reason to have anyone else, whether a dead boy, a choice of non-existent girls (George V had only one daughter) or a real live Germanophile, if the Duke of Kent was indeed such. And it is only in theory that there could have been anyone else, only the Duke of York as next in line was sure of acceptance.
 
No, Who becomes crown prince. What becomes King of England, I don't know's PM, Wye is the Chancellor of the Exchequer...
 
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