The couple had two sons, William and Harry. The first to be affected by the changes, on the day they came into effect in March, were the children of Lady Davina Lewis—her son Tāne (born 2012) and her daughter Senna (born 2010)—who were reversed in the order of succession, becoming 29th and 28th in line respectively.[16]. The proclamation of accession of Elizabeth II was the first to make mention of representatives of members of the Commonwealth. Under common law the crown was passed on by male primogeniture under which younger sons succeed … Counsellors of State perform some of the sovereign's duties in the United Kingdom while he or she is out of the country or temporarily incapacitated. Anger as Remembrance Day mourner is 'pushed to ground by police' near Cenotaph, EXCLUSIVE: Mystery as 'werewolf with 'German shepherd' head 'spotted' in same cemetery years apart, British cryptid researcher Andy McGrath admits the witness accounts "sound like something for fantasists and horror fans" but the half dog half man creature could be real, Teco customers brawl by eggs after woman shushed during two-minute silence, Shoppers heard a man shout "you've disrespected my mother" at the Tesco Extra in Middlesbrough before a fight broke out and eggs were broken. Richard was the last king of the House of York, and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. Thirty-five-year-old Prince William is second in line to the throne, under his father, Prince Charles, on the royal family tree. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014. Under the Perth Agreement, which came into effect in 2015, only the first six in line of succession require the sovereign's consent before they marry; without such consent, they and their children would be disqualified from succession. On 31 August 1997, the Princess was killed in a car crash in Paris. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces. Henry VIII's numerous marriages led to several complications over succession. Anne was predeceased by Sophia, Electress Dowager of Hanover, and was therefore succeeded by the latter's son, who became George I in 1714. The first four individuals in the line of succession who are over 21, and the sovereign's consort, may be appointed Counsellors of State. (The Act was repealed in 1863.). Princess Anne has married twice; her first husband Capt Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Adm Timothy Laurence. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York. The couple decided to give their children "courtesy" titles as sons or daughters of an Earl, rather than the style prince or princess. After Mary II died in 1694, her husband continued to reign alone until his own death in 1702. He trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot. Between 1811 and 1820, when George III was deemed unfit to rule, the Prince of Wales (later George IV) acted as his regent. On 29 July 1981 he married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales. All Royals today are direct descendants of Queen Victoria, even though she was born a full 107 years before Elizabeth II was born. The Act of Settlement further provided that anyone who married a Roman Catholic was ineligible to succeed. King George VI died in 1952 at the age of 56, and was succeeded by his first-born daughter Elizabeth – the current Queen Elizabeth II. Prince Harry is sixth in line to the throne. The Royal family dates back more than a thousand years. Her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, is the second longest-reigning monarch, and reigned for 63 years. Anne originally withheld the Royal Assent, but was forced to grant it when the estates refused to raise taxes and sought to withdraw troops from the queen's army. Attempts were made in the risings of 1715 and 1745 to restore Stuart claimants to the Throne, supported by those who recognised the Jacobite succession. In 2011, the prime ministers of the realms agreed unanimously to adopt a common approach to amending the rules on the succession to their respective Crowns so that absolute primogeniture would apply for persons born after the date of the agreement, instead of male-preference primogeniture, and the ban on marriages to Roman Catholics would be lifted, but the monarch would still need to be in communion with the Church of England.