OUR BABY PRINCESS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 15 June 1926, Page 2

OUR BABY PRINCESS

Of pourse the birth of the little Princess affects the position of her uncles, Prince Henry and Prince George, in the succession to the Throne, commented the Dailv Mail of Ist May last. It was in virtue of the preference which the Act of Settlement gives to an elder brother’s daughter over a younger brother that Queen Victoria came to the Throne in 1837 instead of the Duke of Cumberland, who was next surviving brother to the late King, William IV., but was junior to Queerr Victoria’s deceased father, the Duke of Kent. Chir little Princess, therefore, is third in succession to the Crown —ranking after the Prince of Wales and her own father. Prince Henry 'and Prince George now corile fourth and fifth, as brothers lake precedence of sisters in the order of succession. Princess Mary V iscountess Lascelles, although she is senior to both these Princes, now takes the sixth place, followed by her sons as seventh and eighth. , The little Princess will he “of V ork. by virtue of her father’s dukedom of York, just ns Queen Victoria before she came to the Throne was Princess Victoria of Kent, after her father’s dukedom of the “garden of England.”