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As everyone knows George IV married Maria FitzHerbert (a Roman Catholic), despite the fact that the Act of Settlement expressly forbade the marriage of anyone in the line of succession to do so, and if they did, they were excluded; plus after a spate of rash marriages, George III had introduced another law that said that all marriages in the royal family had to be subject to the king's approval.

I'm actually surprised this hasn't come up before (at least that I can find), but what if the PoW gets kicked from the succession for marrying a Catholic. Maybe news of the marriage gets out, or something. Either way, Frederick, duke of York is now the heir presumptive. How does this change history? Can it change history?
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