Talk:Britannian Imperial Family/@comment-92.239.152.237-20180617123051/@comment-220.240.17.74-20191103083517

"The first half of what you said is right- the numbering of Princes and Princesses is by the order of birth, separated by gender. There's just two problems with this:

-Nunnally is not 17th Princess. Her number was never revealed.

-Marrybell can't be Fourth Princess, or any Princess, because the Third Princess is younger than her, by two years. She just doesn't fit in, at all"

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We don't actually know that the [X-th prince(ss)] convention is definitively based on birth order, it could be bestowed on the basis of legal recognition. That would normally be the same thing but if a child was acknowledged or legitimized later in their life than at birth this could explain how an older sibling might have a seemingly contradictory [number-title].

Also, we know that Lelouch has fewer than 16 older siblings (he's older than the 3rd Princess, Euphemia, and is the 11th Prince, meaning that he has at most 12 legally acknowledged older siblings...so who are the other 4 people before him in the line of succession? Or is the succession not about age and bloodline at all, but instead by appointment, with a ranking system either laid out in law or determined at will by the Emperor?