Prince George, Princess Charlotte & Prince Louis Step Out with Will & Kate for Christmas Service
Not all that long ago, Princess Charlotte wouldn’t have even been a spare heir. She would’ve been “just” a princess.
But with the 2013 Succession to the Crown Act retroactively applying to all those born after Oct. 28, 2011, her late gan-gan Queen Elizabeth II and British Parliament made it so that the line of succession would stop skipping over girls in favor of younger brothers. It also meant that a daughter of the heir to the throne would remain in line according to her place in the birth order, rather than get booted down the line by male first cousins.
Though, while third in line to the throne now, Charlotte will be booted by her older brother’s children.
She will descend the ladder when Prince George, 11, starts his own family one day, as their uncle Prince Harry (born third in line and now fifth) did when Prince William and Kate Middleton started theirs.
But Charlotte, who’s turning 10 on May 2, was always destined to be more than the average spare heir.
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