Talk:Headlong (Williams novel)

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I would like to move this article to Headlong (Emlyn Williams novel), and create a disambiguation page here. The Michael Frayn novel of the same title is at least as notable as this one. Does anyone have any objections to my doing this? CarolGray 19:01, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Having checked Naming conventions (books), I'd like to move this article to Headlong (Williams novel), instead. CarolGray 12:23, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Since no-one objected, I made the move on 1 May 2006. CarolGray 19:08, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Illegitimacy
Wouldn't being an illegitimate descendant exclude him from the line of succession? Nik42 03:14, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Presumably, although I haven't read the book... DBD 15:27, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

He wasn't illegitimate (at least in the novel's internal logic) - it states that the subject, John, was the legitimate son of the legitimate son of HRH The Duke of Clarence, by a secret civil marriage to a commoner - and therefore technically had a better claim to the Throne than George V, whom he succeeded. Of course the flaw is that it does not consider the Royal Marriages Act 1772, which would have rendered the marriage void ab initio, and any issue illegitimate - since such marriage had neither the consent of the reigning monarch, Victoria, nor notice to the Privy Council and one-year waiting period, etc etc etc... CR1670 (talk) 11:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)