Who Replaces The Queen?

Hey you can have back our great (cough cough) Governor. Granholm in Michigan...

line of succesion

Man that is so cool, Where did you get that Dockwlliper
Thanks for the picture

Nah, I'll get one with Carmen Electra on it. :P

G'day, regarding Yechi7's question:
there is an anomaly in the system.
There is only one type of King, and he is the reigning sovereign. If he ceases to reign, he is no longer King. For example, Edward 8th forfeited his titles when he abdicated, but his successor created him as the Duke of Windsor.
There are, however, three types of Queen:
Q. Regnant - a reigning sovereign, as is Elizabeth 2nd, now reigning.
Q. Consort - wife of a King. Thus, the present Queen's mother was a Q. Consort from 1936 to 1952.
Q. Dowager - the widow of a King. This was the status of the mother of the present Queen, from 1952 until her death. Although she was usually referred to as "the Queen Mother", I gather that that title was invented for her, because she didn't want to be referred to as a Dowager.
Interestingly, George 5th's widow, Queen Mary, outlived her son, George 6th, by a few years. For those few years, there were simultaneously three queens: two Dowagers, and one Regnant.
The present Queen's husband is a Prince of Greece. He was given the British title of Duke of Edinburgh. Queen Victoria gave the same title to her husband. In the Victorian era, he was sometimes referred to as "the Prince Consort", but I can't recall hearing that expression used in relation to Prince Phillip.
So, if a Queen Regnant were married to someone who wasn't a Prince, he wouldn't acquire that title by marriage, unless the Queen chose to so elevate him.
Peter in Oz

Oh, it gets even more confussing.

When (read if) the queen dies and charles is still alive, his wife will not be allowed to be queen, at the present anyway, because when they married there was something said or written that prevented he from being it, they did not marry in a church I think it might be, because charles was a ddivorcee and I think camila is as well and the church didn't like it, though I think when charles does become king, he becomes head of the church of england and can order people around (as he likes doing, according to people I know who have worked for him, well one guy, walked out of charles because he said he was not very nice) so he could make his wife queen and have an official church thing, but only after his mother goes.

As for whether his ears could fit on, well, the portait will not be face on, but the side, the 2008 five pound coin, rather large, as a portrait of charles, which is facing the portrait facing the same way as his mother, most kings and queens go the other way to their predecesor, though Edward VIII didn't and messed it all up, but as coins were generally not circulated because he wasn't there long enough it didn't matter too much.

Most people though, do not want charles to be king, they want pop star will to become it, he is also in the armed forces but knows that he cannot go to war, there is no point in even asking, so it is unfair to say he is not like his brother (who went into the forces earlier than will) william is doing what his father did, serve in all three branches, in the RAF at the present I think.