Robert Hazell

Professor of Government and the Constitution, University College London, since 1998

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This is a question for the government, and the monarchy is tightly regulated by law,
There are immediately a couple of potential complications. If Andrew is removed from the line of succession, are his daughters [Beatrice or Eugenie] automatically removed? That's a matter of choice for the government in framing the legislation,
The Australian and Canadian constitutions, for example, are notoriously difficult to change,
This legislation requires quite delicate and protracted negotiations with the Commonwealth realm countries around the world,
The last time this happened was for the Succession to the Crown Act 2013, which made the law of royal succession gender neutral,

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