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14:35 GMT<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n <\/span><\/header>\n Kate Whannel<\/strong> As we’ve reported in the post below, the government has confirmed it has no plans to pass a law to formally remove Andrew from the line of succession. <\/p>\n It means that while he no longer has the titles of a royal, he will still technically be eighth in line to the throne.<\/p>\n Passing a law to change that would be complex, as it would require consent from the 14 Commonwealth realms, including Australia and Canada. <\/p>\n Craig Prescott, constitutional expert at Royal Holloway University, says that \u201cmight not be a box the Palace want to open\u201d as it could fan the flames of the republican movements in some of those countries.<\/p>\n Robert Hazell, professor of government and the constitution at University College London, says the last time the government made changes to the succession laws it took “two years of protracted negotiations”. That was to remove the rule that male children would take precedence over female children.<\/p>\n Hazell says the UK government will not want to invest that sort of time and effort into making the change, and also ask Commonwealth governments to do the same.<\/p>\n There is another complication: laws going through Parliament can be amended. For example, one MP could try to amend the bill to remove Prince Harry from the line of succession.<\/p>\n \u201cThe government won\u2019t want to go there,\u201d Hazell says. \u201cTo quote a colleague of mine, \u2018you can\u2019t half open a can of worms’.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why No 10 won’t want to remove Andrew from line of successionpublished at 14:35 GMT 14:35 GMT Kate WhannelPolitical reporter As we’ve reported in the post below, the government has confirmed it has no plans to pass a law to formally remove Andrew from the line of succession. It means that while he no longer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2125567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Prince-Andrew-stripped-of-prince-title-and-will-move-out.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127306,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127305\/revisions\/2127306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2125567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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