Calls to bump off Prince Harry in the British line of succession have grown since the Duke of Sussex announced he's having a second child with Meghan Markle. Some royal followers aren't happy that Harry's chances of sitting on the throne could still be highly possible even as he has abandoned his royal duties.
According to royal editor Robert Jobson, Harry's ranking as the sixth in line to the throne poses a constitutional crisis. Stating that the senior royals must wake up to the fact that Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, are not coming back to the royal fold so the Duke of Sussex should be "taken out" to avoid serious repercussions.
When the Queen dies, the line of succession dictates that Prince Charles will be crowned as the new monarch. After him, it's his first-born son Prince William who must sit on the throne. Next to William is his first-born, Prince George.
Jobson cited that at the height of the COVID-19 first wave, Queen Elizabeth had to carefully isolate because she's 94 while both her heirs, Prince Charles and Prince William, were sick with COVID-19. The royal expert said that had the unthinkable happened and all three royals died, Harry would have become the regent to Prince George, who is only seven years old. But then Harry already chose to relinquish his duties to the Crown and has been living in California with Meghan for nearly a year.
The next adult to potentially become a regent is Prince Andrew, who has also quit his royal roles because of his sex scandal. The royal expert said that the British public will not accept a "part-time" regent like Harry or a controversial regent like Andrew to act as George's regent until the young royal becomes off-age.
Jobson believes the more deserving regent should be Princess Anne, who has continuously been the hardest-working member of the royal family. Anne, however, is the 15th in line to the throne and will be pushed down the line of succession once Harry and Meghan welcome their second child.
Royal editor Chris Ship doesn't think it's necessary to bump off Harry from the line of succession because he will be down the line "quite quickly" in the coming years. During Harry's birth, he was the third in line but he was bumped off to sixth when the Cambridge children -- Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis -- were born.
Harry will still be bumped off the line of succession when William and Kate have another baby and will be further down the line once the Cambridge children have kids of their own. Ship said that the line of succession "changes all the time" unless the royal is from the first-born's family.
Royal expert Katie Nicholls also agrees with Ship that Harry lost his ranking and will continue to lose his ranking due to William and Kate's dynasty. Nicholls said that this was part of the reason for Harry's decision to quit his royal role and go a different route than William.
