DNA modification: can I claim the throne of England?

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If I have my DNA modified to match that of the Royal Family, can I place myself in line for the throne?
 
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If I have my DNA modified to match that of the Royal Family, can I place myself in line for the throne?
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Not sure how you’d manage that, but I’m afraid succession to the British throne (if that’s the one you’re after) is determined by Act of Parliament. Still, have a word with Garter King of Arms. He may be able to advise. 🙂
 
Catholics can’t ascrnd the British throne.

Tough break dude
 
Perhaps I should change my name from Maximian to YourMajesty so you can all get some practice when writing to me.
 
I think you would need to change it to PrivateSecretary before any of us would dare to write.
 
No, because it’s not enough to be related to the royal family. You have to be:
  • An heir of the body of the Electress Sophia of Hanover
  • Lawfully begotten
  • Protestant
You could be descended from any of the other dozen children of Sophia’s father, Frederick V, and it wouldn’t put you in the line of succession. You could be descended in an illegitimate line from somebody in the line of succession and that wouldn’t put you in the line of succession. And if you are a Catholic, you aren’t in the line of succession at all. There are almost certainly members of the British nobility who are genetically more closely related to the royal family than many people who are in the line of succession, e.g. because they are descendants of pre-Hanoverian royal families and/or illegitimate issue of Hanoverian and later royal families. William IV had many illegitimate children, and Edward VII probably had illegitimate children whom he never acknowledged.
 
But surely if my dna changes, I am in effect an heir to the Electress Sophie?
 
The first thing I shall do is offer knighthoods to my liberal antagonists as an olive branch.
 
You might be surprised. Im always running into members of the Stuart Society who aren’t joking about their sincere wish for a Jacobite restoration. After the present claimant, the claim will go to the Princes of Liechtenstein
 
Well there you go. Not such an unknown concept after all.

Im not saying the man in the street knows exactly who is the claimant, but if you said “should there be a reexamination of the Jacobite claim in light of the performance of members of the House of Windsor?” You might get a more positive response than you thought
 
Yes, but that’s assuming the subject never gets a proper airing. Five years ago Cameron thought Brexit was such a non-starter that he could afford to pacify the loonies in his party with a referendum…
 
And whatever faults have been found in the House of Windsor they pale when compared with those of the House of Stuart.
 
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