The husband of a female ruler of Sark is not a consort but is jure uxoris ("by right of (his) wife"[1]) a seigneur himself.

Many of the laws, particularly those related to inheritance and the rule of the Seigneur, had changed little since Queen Elizabeth I, by Letters Patent, granted a fiefdom to Hellier de Carteret in 1565.

[4][5] The residents of Sark voted to introduce a fully elected legislature to replace the feudal government in a 2006 referendum,[6] and the law change was approved on 9 April 2008.

[8] The changes in the political system mostly apply to the parliament, the Chief Pleas, not to the Seigneur.

[citation needed] The heir apparent to the seigneurship is the present seigneur's son, Hugh Rees-Beaumont.