[ SECRET POST #5180 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5180 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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06. [SPOILERS for Brand upon the Brain!]
[WARNING for mention of suicide]



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07. [SPOILERS for End Roll]
[WARNING for mention of suicide]



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08. [WARNING for probable discussion of sexual assault?]



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09. [WARNING for mention of sexual assault/rape]



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10. [WARNING for discussion of rape?]



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11. [WARNING for mention of sexual harassment]



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12. [WARNING for mention of domestic violence]



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13. [WARNING for discussion of pedophilia]



















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #741.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

tl;DR

[(Anonymous)]

This is for two reasons. One, it's because William is the heir to the heir. When the Queen dies and Charles becomes king, William will be the heir to the throne and Harry will be the king's son, yes, but not the heir. Harry's children will hold the same relevance within the family as Andrew and Edward's children do, which is to say not much at all. Beatrice and Eugenie aren't that much younger than William and Harry and while they do court media attention, they have never been working royals, despite having titles. Prince Edward's children are still minors, and while they do legally have titles, they don't use them and have been raised in relative privacy.

Second, the law dictating the British line of succession was in the process of being amended around the time William got married, both to remove the barrier against a person in line marrying a Catholic (which restored among others, the Queen's cousin, Prince Michael of Kent, and more distantly, the King of the Netherlands who are both Protestant, but have Catholic wives), and to remove the male-preference succession in favor of absolute primogeniture. The original Letters Patent removed the right to a royal title for great-grandchildren of the monarch except for the "eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales" but with the law change, that led to a problem. There was a 50/50 chance that William and Kate's first child would be a girl, who would automatically be third in line and whose position would no longer be displaced by any younger brothers. However, according to the 1917LP, any daughters of the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales would be styled simply Lady [name] Windsor. This meant that should William have a daughter first, she would be styled as the daughter of a Duke, while her younger brother would enjoy the title and style of a British prince. The Queen issued the Letters Patent to circumvent this, so that a firstborn daughter would not be outranked by her secondborn brother. Since Harry isn't expected to become king, this didn't need to apply to his children, since they would all be styled as children of a duke until Charles became king.