And, furthermore, as far as I can see, the succession isn't as simple as you might think. The monarchy would usually pass to the firstborn male, but it might not. I think that in theory, parliament chooses the next monarch, although in practice that would usually be the firstborn male. But there's been a number of times when the succession hasn't been decided by birth.
The best known (to me) example, is the "Glorious revolution", in which James II was slung out by Parliament, and replaced by William of Orange. Why? Well, I think it was because James was Catholic, and we wanted a Protestant king. We then added to our Constitution, that the king mustn't be a Catholic (see the Bill of Rights). _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
