This is why, although Kate Middleton and Prince William’s third child is a boy, Princess Charlotte will remain fourth in line to the throne and won’t be bumped down to fifth place.

However, the 2013 Succession to the Crown Act amended the system so that males no longer take precedence over their older sisters. Until fairly recently, the line of succession followed a system of male preference primogeniture - where princes took precedence over their older sisters. To make matters even more complicated, the British royal line of succession is also pretty complex. The most famous family in Britain is a notoriously complicated one, with a few divorces, second marriages and name repetitions. While Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince George are fairly easy to place in the rather complicated British royal family tree, where do royals like Princess Eugenie, Zara Tindall and Prince Edward come into the picture? If you can’t get your head around the head-scratch-worthy royal family tree, don’t be too hard on yourself. The news comes a few months after Princess Eugenie of York married Jack Brooksbank, and a little over a year since Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, welcomed their latest royal baby boy, Prince Louis, in April 2018.

On Wednesday, they revealed his name: Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. Nearly a year after their marriage last May, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, announced on Monday that they welcomed their first child, a baby boy. The British royal family tree and line of succession is going through some changes.

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