On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:05:14 -0600, tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel)
wrote:
>The Regency Act provides that, if a higher-precedenct regent candidate
>meets the qualifications during the regency, they become regent. But
>there were no such candidates, so the Princess Royal would have been
>Regent until 18 December 1959 or she died, whichever came first.
>
>If she died, her sons
>* The Hon. George Lascelles
> b. 7 February 1923, so he's 21-22.
> Has there been a regent who was not royal? His father didn't
> kick until 23 May 1947; has there ever been a regent who was not
> even a peer?
>* The Honourable Gerald Lascelles
> 21 August 1924, so 20.
>
>After them, the issue of Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife.
I'm working from memory here but wasn't Edward VI's regent one of the
Seymours? Admittedly his uncle but not royal.
Certainly no one in more modern times - Victoria was 18 when she
ascended the throne but did she have a regent? I dont think she did. |
