Argentina Australia Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Brazil Brunei Canada Chile China Colombia Denmark European Union Finland France Germany Greece Guatemala Holy See India Indonesia Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Lithuania Malaysia Malta New Zealand Nepal Norway Pakistan Poland Portugal Philippines Romania South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Singapore Sweden Switzerland Thailand Turkey United Kingdom The order of precedence in the United Kingdom is the sequential hierarchy for Peers of the Realm, officers of state, senior members of the clergy, holders of the various Orders of Chivalry, and is mostly determined, but not limited to, birth order, place in the line of succession, or distance from the reigning monarch.
The House of Lords Precedence Act 1539 (which technically applies only to determine seating in the House of Lords Chamber) and the Acts of Union with Scotland and Ireland generally set precedence for members of the nobility.
Thirdly, in the case of women, one may be the wife of a title-holder (note that wives acquire precedence due to their husbands, but husbands do not gain any special precedence due to their wives).
The King or Queen of the United Kingdom, as the sovereign, is always first in the order of precedence.
A king is followed by his queen consort, the first in the order of precedence for women.
There is no established law of precedence for a prince consort, so he is usually specially granted precedence above all other males by letters patent or, on the other hand, may rank lower than the heir apparent or the heir presumptive, even if the heir is his own son, such as with Prince Albert and Edward VII, who outranked their father as Prince of Wales.
In England and Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the highest in precedence following the royal family.
The ranks of Peers are as follows: Duke (and Duchess), Marquess (and Marchioness), Earl (and Countess), Viscount (and Viscountess), and Baron (and Baroness) together with Scottish Lord (and Lady) of Parliament.
Primates (i.e. archbishops) and bishops of the Church of England rank immediately above Peers.
According to the unofficial order of precedence for Northern Ireland published by the publishers of Burke's Peerage, 106th Edition, [1], the precedence of all of the primates and archbishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and the Church of Ireland, together with the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, are to be determined solely by seniority, according to the dates of consecration or translation, or the date of election, in the case of the Presbyterian Moderator, without any presumption of automatic Roman Catholic or Protestant seniority, Anglican or Presbyterian.