Why Princess Charlotte Will Never Be Your Average Spare Heir
Not all that long ago, Princess Charlotte wouldn't have even been a spare heir.
She would've just been a plain ol' princess.
But in 2013, with the Succession to the Crown Act, retroactively applying to all those born after Oct.
28, 2011, Queen Elizabeth II and the British Parliament made it so that the line of succession would stop skipping over girls in favor of younger brothers, and made it so that a daughter of the heir to the throne would remain in line according to her place in the birth order.
Yes, that only took until 2013.
Anyway, Charlotte—who will still descend the ladder when her big brother Prince George starts his own family one day,...
