Editing Act of Settlement 1701 (section)

=== Removal from the succession due to Catholicism ===
[[File:Kurfuerstin Sophie.JPG|thumb|right|[[Sophia of Hanover|Sophia, Electress of Hanover]]]]
Since the act's passing the most senior living member of the royal family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby to have been removed from the line of succession, is [[Prince Michael of Kent]], who married [[Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz]] in 1978; he was fifteenth in the line of succession at the time. He was restored to the line of succession in 2015 when the [[Succession to the Crown Act 2013]] came into force, and became 34th in line.<ref name=royalcentral>{{cite web |url=http://royalcentral.co.uk/state/what-do-the-new-royal-succession-changes-mean-46610 |title=What do the new royal succession changes mean? |publisher=Royal Central |date=26 March 2015 |access-date=30 March 2015}}</ref>

The next most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who had been ineligible to succeed on this ground is [[George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews]], the elder son of [[Prince Edward, Duke of Kent]], who married the Roman Catholic [[Sylvana Tomaselli|Sylvana Palma Tomaselli]] in 1988. His son, [[Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick|Lord Downpatrick]], converted to Roman Catholicism in 2003 and is the most senior descendant of Sophia to be barred as a result of his religion. In 2008 his daughter, [[Lady Marina Windsor]], also converted to Catholicism and was removed from the line of succession. More recently, [[Peter Phillips]], the son of [[Anne, Princess Royal]], and eleventh in line to the throne, married [[Autumn Kelly]]; Kelly had been brought up as a Roman Catholic, but she converted to [[Anglicanism]] prior to the wedding. Had she not done so, Phillips would have forfeited his place in the succession upon their marriage, only to have it restored in 2015.

Excluding those princesses who have married into Roman Catholic royal families, such as [[Marie of Edinburgh]], [[Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg]] and [[Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh]], one member of the Royal Family (that is, with the style of ''[[Royal Highness]]'') has converted to Roman Catholicism since the passage of the Act: the [[Katharine, Duchess of Kent|Duchess of Kent]], wife of [[Prince Edward, Duke of Kent]], who converted on 14 January 1994, but her husband did not lose his place in the succession because she was an Anglican at the time of their marriage.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brown|first=Andrew|date=2011-09-18|title=Catholics hail Duchess of Kent's conversion|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/catholics-hail-duchess-of-kent-s-conversion-1399421.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-12|website=The Independent|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008031910/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/catholics-hail-duchess-of-kent-s-conversion-1399421.html|archive-date=8 October 2021}}</ref>