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Succession to the Crown Bill

Proceeding contribution from Chris Bryant (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 28 January 2013. It occurred during Debate on bills on Succession to the Crown Bill.

That is not in the Bill. Indeed, the Government have said that it is entirely a matter for the Crown, in the double sense of the monarch and the monarch’s Ministers, who might have a role in advising the monarch.

Incidentally, I would not want to be a monarch apart from Elizabeth with a “II” in my title, but when James II was removed, Parliament decided, through the Bill of Rights and then the Act of Settlement, to hand over a joint monarchy to William and Mary rather than to anybody else. Then, when the Stuart line was going to end with Queen Anne, Parliament decided how the succession should proceed. Again, when Edward VIII tried to abdicate in 1936, the abdication could be allowed only because there was a statute of Parliament the next day.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
557 c737 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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