The royal family is seeing a baby boom, the latest addition being the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
As most royal watchers know, there's a long list of family members who are eligible to inherit the throne one day, and every time a new royal baby arrives, the succession line shifts slightly.on June 4, a baby girl named Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. As the most recent royal baby to be born, Lili does affect the family's line to the throne.
Generally speaking, the line of succession follows a straight line from the current sovereign — in this case the queen — to his or her oldest child to his or her oldest child and so on, until there are no more children. Then it picks up at the next oldest child of the person first in line to the throne , then to his or her children, and so on.
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