Talk:Prince Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor/@comment-84.111.137.215-20200727061310/@comment-78.88.183.246-20200809124419

No, you should do research. There used to be a rule that males precede their elder women in the line of succession. That's why Prince Andrew and Prince Edward are both before Princess Anne in line, despite she's older than them. Now that rule applies only to people who where born before October 2011. All of Prince William's children where born after that so Princess Charlotte is fifth and is followed by Prince Louis.

But Henry, his siblings and his mother were all born before that date so the rule still applies to them. So the succession goes: Phillip and his possible future children, Henry and his possible future children, their mother and then Bea. If Catherine had had a brother, he would have been the heir.

However I don't the reason why Henry is the Prince of Wales and not the Duke of York. Maybe there's an explanation but I'm not British so I don't know it.