Note: Only the first 10 successors are included
in the line of succession.
Sources: Photos from AP, Reuters, Getty Images and
EPA-EFE/Shutterstock. Staff reports.
Note: Only the first 10 successors are included in the
line of succession.
Sources: Photos from AP, Reuters, Getty Images and
EPA-EFE/Shutterstock. Staff reports.
Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence
Sophie,
Countess of
Wessex
Note: Only the first 10 successors are included in the line of succession.
Sources: Photos from AP, Reuters, Getty Images and EPA-EFE/Shutterstock. Staff reports.
Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence
Sophie,
Countess of
Wessex
Note: Only the first 10 successors are included in the line of succession.
Sources: Photos from AP, Reuters, Getty Images and EPA-EFE/Shutterstock. Staff reports.
As the elder son of Prince Charles and Diana, the 40-year-old is heir to the British throne.
2. Prince George of Wales
William’s eldest child, 9, follows his father in the line of succession. Prince George was born to much fanfare on July 22, 2013, as reporters and pundits waited outside London’s St. Mary’s Hospital to catch a glimpse of the royal couple’s firstborn child and heir.
3. Princess Charlotte of Wales
George’s sister — William’s 8-year-old daughter — comes next.
The third child of William and Catherine is fourth in line to the throne. Five-year-old Louis captured hearts and international headlines after his emotional display on the balcony of Buckingham Palace amid the pomp of the queen’s Platinum Jubilee in June.
William’s brother, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, 38, is fifth in line to the British throne. Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, bought a $14.7 million home in California after “stepping back” from the royal family and surrendering their “royal highness” titles.
6. Archie Mountbatten-Windsor
Harry’s children with Meghan come next. Archie, their firstborn, will be 4 as of May 6.
Among the many jaw-dropping revelations the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made in an interview with Oprah Winfrey earlier this year was the claim that Buckingham Palace refused Archie the title of prince — a decision that Meghan called hurtful and suggested was driven by institutional racism within the monarchy.
7. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor
Harry and Meghan’s daughter, age 1, follows her brother, Archie. The queen reportedly met her great-granddaughter Lilibet — who is named after her and after Harry’s late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales — for the first time at the Platinum Jubilee.
Charles’s first brother — second son of Elizabeth and Philip — is eighth in line to the throne. Andrew, 63, in February settled a lawsuit with an American, Virginia Giuffre, who said she was forced to have sexual encounters with him when she was a teenager after being trafficked by U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein.
While Andrew has been stripped of his royal highness title and honorary patronages, he remains in the line of succession.
Beatrice, 34, who also goes by Mrs. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and ex-wife Sarah.
10. Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi
Beatrice’s daughter, 1-year-old Sienna, is 10th in line to the British throne.
Adela Suliman, Annabelle Timsit and William Booth contributed to this report.