NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Prince Andrew and Prince Harry will still be able to stand in for the King but appear to have been bumped down the pecking order in a royal revamp.
Charles III has announced he is extending the number of members of the Royal Family who can act as Counsellors of State and can fulfil certain official duties when he is unavailable.
His siblings Anne, Princess Royal, and Prince Edward will soon be able to deputise for the monarch if he is overseas on an official trip or ill, a signed message read to both the House of Lords and Commons today revealed.
They will join the Prince of Wales, Harry, Andrew and Princess Beatrice – the four most senior adults in the line of succession – as Counsellors of State, as determined in the Regency Acts 1937 to 1953.