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  1. Alternative successions to the English and British Crown

    • British history provides several opportunities for alternative claimants to the English and later British Crown to arise, and historical scholars have on occasion traced to present times the heirs of those alternative claims. Throughout this article, the names of "would-have-been" monarchs are in italics. See more

    Abdication of Richard II

    Richard II abdicated in favour of Henry Bolingbroke on 29 September 1399. However, Henry was not … See more

    Descendants of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence

    This line's claim to the Crown is based upon the argument that Edward IV was not the son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and thus had no legitimate claim to the Crown. Therefore, when Richard was killed at the … See more

    Descendants of Mary Tudor, Queen of France

    Parliament's Third Succession Act granted Henry VIII the right to bequeath the crown in his Will. His Will specified that, in default of heirs to his children, the throne was to pass to the children of the daughters of his younger sis… See more

    Descendants of Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp and Lady Katherine Grey

    Although the marriage of Lady Katherine Grey and Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, was annulled as illegal in 1562, and her children consequently rendered illegitimate, James I regarded the Seymour line as eligi… See more

    Continuation of the House of Stuart

    The Jacobite succession stemmed from the death of Charles II in 1685. When Charles’ younger brother James, Duke of York became king as James II of England and VII of Scotland, concerns arose that James, a recent Ca… See more

     
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