However, Henry was not next in the line to the throne; the heir presumptive was Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March,[1][2] who descended from Edward III's second surviving son, Lionel of Antwerp, whereas Henry's father, John of Gaunt, was Edward's third surviving son.
Had Edmund inherited instead, the alternative succession would have been short-lived, for it re-united with the historical crown when Edward IV was declared king in 1461.
When Henry VI and Edward both died in 1471, Clarence became the legal heir of the House of Lancaster.
His Will specified that, in default of heirs to his children, the throne was to pass to the children of the daughters of his younger sister Mary Tudor, Queen of France, bypassing the line of his elder sister Margaret Tudor, represented by the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots.
[8][9][10] Her succession follows: Lady Kinloss's heir-presumptive is her sister Hester Josephine Anne Freeman-Grenville, who is married to Peter Haworth and has three sons.
[11] When Franz dies, his claim on the English and Scottish crowns[12] will pass to his younger brother Prince Max.