Quotes About Succession

Her son, Prince James

Guises swiftly proclaimed their niece to be "queen of England, Scotland and Ireland," challenging Elizabeth's right to succeed her elder sister on the grounds of bastardy and Protestantism.

Elizabeth's right to succeed her elder sister on the grounds of bastardy and Protestantism

Francis was succeeded by his brother, Charles IX, who was only ten years old.

his goal, unlike Elizabeth's, was to keep her off the throne.

she continued so relentlessly to set her sights on recognition as the heir to a woman who was only nine years older

Arran and Lennox were rival claimants to the succession. Their families were old enemies;

If unity lies in the Apostolical succession, an act of schism is from the nature of the case impossible; for as no one can reverse his parentage, so no Church can undo the fact that its clergy have come by lineal descent from the Apostles. Either there is no such sin as schism, or unity does not lie in the Episcopal form or in the Episcopal ordination.

WHAT IF Stalin himself was the problem, though, and communism might be salvaged with different leadership? The men who sought to succeed him all believed the diagnosis to be accurate and the prescription to be appropriate. Each of them set out to liberate Marxism-Leninism from the legacy of Stalinism. They found, though, that the two were inextricably intertwined: that to try to separate one from another risked killing both.

I'm the person everyone replaces after a while.

The English remained paralysed by their own rivalries until the following April, at which point Æthelred made an invaluable contribution to the war effort by dropping dead, clearing the way for Edmund to succeed him.

Power in Mercia passed to a new king named Coenwulf,

Given that he would go on to reign for almost forty years, Offa must have been a young man in 757,

king who had sons by more than one woman, leading to uncertainty about which of them would succeed him.

Æthelred made an invaluable contribution to the war effort by dropping dead, clearing the way for Edmund to succeed him.

decided he would rather not relinquish his position, and was plotting to prevent his father's return

Æthelwulf's sons might well have worried that their new twelve-year-old stepmother

King Sæberht of Essex was succeeded by his pagan sons,

says the annal for 924, 'King Edward died, and his son Æthelstan succeeded to the kingdom.

they probably became worse after the death of Theodore, who died in September 690 at the advanced age of eighty-eight.

the old king died not long afterwards in January 858. The elder son retained the position he had usurped,

and the younger one stepped into the position vacated by their father.

The boy's name was Ecgfrith, and it was upon him that his father's plans for the future depended.

he was actually in his mid-twenties at the time of his accession.