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What happens to a prince if he dies and does have any kids or brother who becomes the new prince and princess?

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who rules if the there is no prince in the family and the king and queen have daughter

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  1. The list of succession for most monarchies is quite long. The British list has 1289 people on it.

    The situation you mention is pertinent to Monaco as the Person second in line to the throne is untitled (Andrea Casiraghi). If Prince Albert II never marries (and at nearly 50 this looks likely) then Andrea is in direct line for the throne. Upon either his mother's ascension or his mother's death (Caroline is older then Albert II by just over a year) Andrea will become Hereditary Prince of Monaco and at that point will probably become HSH Prince Andrea. He will have to change his surname to Grimaldi upon ascending the throne (if not sooner).

    If a King and Queen have a daughter but no son it depends on the country, in the UK the daughter would inherit (Queen Elizabeth II only had a younger sister and no brothers), in Japan, women canoot ascend the throne and the throne passes to the nearest male, however, the line of sucession in Japan only consists of three people - the Crown Prince, his brother and the brother's son as the throne cannot pass down the female line.


  2. The eldest daughter becomes Queen Regent,just like Elizabeth II. When her father King George VI died, Elizabeth and Margaret, his daughters were first and second in line of succession. Elizabeth became Queen Regent, and Margaret was the heir until Elizabeth had children of her own.In the UK,when there are no sons,daughters take over the job.The daughter is soverign,while her husband is a prince consort;he is not monarch,just spouse.No one can wear a title higher than the ruling monarch,so when a queen sits on the throne there are no kings.

    Here are the rules of succesion for the UK monarchy:

    from www.royal.gov/uk

    "The succession to the throne is regulated not only through descent, but also by Parliamentary statute.

    The order of succession is the sequence of members of the Royal Family in the order in which they stand in line to the throne.

    The basis for the succession was determined in the constitutional developments of the seventeenth century, which culminated in the Bill of Rights (1689) and the Act of Settlement (1701).

    When James II fled the country in 1688, Parliament held that he had 'abdicated the government' and that the throne was vacant. The throne was then offered, not to James's young son, but to his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange, as joint rulers.

    It therefore came to be established not only that the Sovereign rules through Parliament, but that the succession to the throne can be regulated by Parliament, and that a Sovereign can be deprived of his title through misgovernment.

    The succession to the throne is regulated not only through descent, but also by statute; the Act of Settlement confirmed that it was for Parliament to determine the title to the throne.

    The Act laid down that only Protestant descendants of Princess Sophia - the Electress of Hanover and granddaughter of James I - are eligible to succeed. Subsequent Acts have confirmed this.

    Parliament, under the Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement, also laid down various conditions which the Sovereign must meet. A Roman Catholic is specifically excluded from succession to the throne; nor may the Sovereign marry a Roman Catholic.

    The Sovereign must, in addition, be in communion with the Church of England and must swear to preserve the established Church of England and the established Church of Scotland. The Sovereign must also promise to uphold the Protestant succession."

  3. If the Crown Prince or Royal Prince who is first in line to inherit the crown passes away, whoever is next in line will take his place. This could be either his royal legitimate offspring if he had any or his silbings. If he had any royal children,  his eldest child (male or female) or eldest son will be his successor.

    The order of succession is a hereditary system regulated by laws of Cognatic primogeniture or Absolute primogeniture.

    - Cognatic primogeniture (also known as male-preference primogeniture) allows a female to succeed if she has no living brothers and no deceased brothers left any surviving legitimate descendents. This was the most common primogeniture practiced in Western European feudalism.

    - Absolute, equal or lineal primogeniture is inheritance by the oldest surviving child without regard to gender. It is also known as (full) cognatic primogeniture.

    Depending whichever hereditary system it follows, the royal children of the Prince is still given first priority before the Prince's own brother(s) and sister(s). If the Prince dies without issue (died childless), the crown will go to the next royal member in line, which was established at the time of their births, this can be anyone from his brother, sister, uncle, aunt or cousins.

    If a monarch (King/Queen) only had daughters as heiresses to the throne, the eldest daughter will be first in line to inherit the crown. The order line of succession is followed by her legitimate royal offspring, her other royal sisters and their legitimate royal offspring, and other close royal relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins).

    The line of succession also depends on whether the royal princess who is first in line is named "Heiress Presumptive" or Heiress Apparent."

    Heiress Presumptive - provisionally scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honor, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir apparent or of a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the throne

    Example: First born princess is first in line to the crown, however, if a male heir was born after her, he will be first in line and she (although being first-born) will be placed second in line and so forth if more sons were born. This policy does not include nephews (if a King/Queen had a sister who had a son, he will remain behind the King’s children).

    Heiress Apparent - an heiress who cannot be displaced from inheriting.

    Example: First born princess is first in line to the crown whether or not the next child who comes along is a male heir.

    The line of succession gives priority to the male-line of a monarch and descendants from the male-line of a monarch. With this in mind, royal children whether male or female of a ruling monarch is given priority before royal children of a princess (female-line of a ruling monarch).

  4. if a king and queen have only daughters and no sons then the eldest daughter will become queen but her husband will not be the king,  

    this has happened before take a look at hte queen her father king george didn't have any sons.

  5. They go to a swam find a frog and a princess kisses it then marries the prince frog and they live happily ever after.

  6. Generally the daughter will marry a prince and become queen of his kingdom, so that means her kingdom would be passed on to a male cousin or nephew. They are the ones next in line.

  7. In the British monarchy, the crown can pass to daughters, as it did with Elizabeth II. I think many monarchies now have succession rights for daughters (except Japan, but there might be others).

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