Here’s how that shakes out in terms of the royal lineage. Prince William is the first in line for the throne. Getty Images Prince William, who is first in the line of succession to the throne ...

The nine-year-old royal—as the firstborn to Prince William and Princess Kate—is second in line for the British throne. Should none of the Waleses become the next monarch of Great Britain ...

The order of succession to the throne is a sequence that is regulated through descent, but also by Parliamentary statute. Since the seventeenth century, the process of choosing a monarch has ...