{"id":1133966,"date":"2026-08-06T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1133966\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:59:30","slug":"how-princess-eugenies-new-baby-changes-the-royal-line-of-succession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1133966\/","title":{"rendered":"How Princess Eugenie\u2019s New Baby Changes the Royal Line of Succession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank just welcomed their third child, and she\u2019s here to shake up the royal line of succession!<\/p>\n

Eugenie and Jack announced The arrival of their daughter earlier this week, and released a statement on Instagram saying, \u201cJack and I are so excited to announce Baby Girl Brooksbank!! We are beyond in love with our girlie. \ud83d\udc93\ud83d\udc93\ud83d\udc93\ud83d\udc93\ud83d\udc93\u201d (Side note: the palace also released a statement saying, \u201cTheir Majesties The King and Queen and other members of The Royal Family were delighted to be informed of the news.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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And, due to being a casual royal, Baby Girl Brooksbank is officially in line to the throne. Though, there are a lot of people in front of her. The full order of succession goes:<\/p>\n

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  1. Prince William<\/li>\n
  2. Prince George<\/li>\n
  3. Princess Charlotte<\/li>\n
  4. Prince Louis<\/li>\n
  5. Prince Harry<\/li>\n
  6. Prince Archie<\/li>\n
  7. Princess Lilibet<\/li>\n
  8. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/li>\n
  9. Princess Beatrice<\/li>\n
  10. Sienna Mapelli Mozzi<\/li>\n
  11. Athena Mapelli Mozzi<\/li>\n
  12. Princess Eugenie<\/li>\n
  13. August Brooksbank<\/li>\n
  14. Ernest Brooksbank<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u201cBaby Girl Brooksbank\u201d comes in after her two older brothers at number 15! She\u2019s followed by Prince Edward and his children, then Princess Anne and her children (and grandchildren), and then David Armstrong-Jones. He\u2019s the first royal in the line of succession who\u2019s not a descendant of Queen Elizabeth II, and is the son of her younger sister, Princess Margaret. Her daughter and grandchildren are also in the line, and then it branches out to Queen Elizabeth\u2019s cousin, Prince Richard, and his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank just welcomed their third child, and she\u2019s here to shake up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1133967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7708],"tags":[223518,1380,308507,1331,258961,1381,226342,5105,7710,519,448,308506,291041,225931],"class_list":["post-1133966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-royals","tag-collection-royal-family","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-92081d1d-f983-46c5-8ac5-dc0636620483","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-2","tag-royal","tag-royal-families","tag-royal-family","tag-royals","tag-shorttitle-the-royal-line-of-succession-just-changed","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-celebs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117048926995155905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1133967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}