Thanks. My assumption was that since her father was never king, her predecessor’s natural next of kin by right of primogeniture would be his brother, not his niece.
It might seem logical that the child of a monarch precedes a grandchild, but in practice that gets messy.
At present the successsion is Charles>William> and now young Richard James Jeremy> then Harry. Orderly succession can be planned for
If Elizabeth survives Charles, nothing changes, everybody moves up one.
Under the never King alternative, if Charles died before Elizabeth, William and young Richard James Jeremy drop from 2d and 3d in line to 6th and 7th, and almost inevitably lower.
That puts pressure on HM to abdicate before Charles dies. Does she go early making the United Kindgom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland like those little EUropean monarchies? Does she hang on, while everybody watches for Charles to develop a bad cold? Do they crown an ill or dying monarch because they have to? What about accidents?
Then there is the place of the former Sarah Ferguson who will eventually become the notQueen Mother to Queen Eugenie.
Deciding on the formal postion of Camilla would be a doddle compared to that.