Talk:Titles Deprivation Act 1917

Salic Law

In addition, due to Salic Law, neither Victoria nor her descendents could ascend to the throne of the Kingdom of Hanover. As such the throne of Hanover went to her uncle Ernest Augustus and his male descendents.

The relevance of this passage, I suspect, is not obvious to the uninitiated; so I radically rewrote it. —Tamfang (talk) 09:48, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Inaccuracy

The article presently reads:

on March 28, 1919, the King issued an Order-in-Council depriving the following persons of their titles:

• HRH The Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, Baron Arklow and a Prince of the United Kingdom)
• HRH The Crown Prince of Hanover (Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Earl of Armagh and a Prince of the United Kingdom)
• HRH The Duke of Brunswick (a Prince of the United Kingdom)
• The Viscount Taaffe (Viscount Taaffe and Baron Ballymote)

The Duke of Cumberland and the Duke of Brunswick no longer bore any British princely titles; these had been restricted to grandchildren of the Sovereign (and the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales) by Letters Patent of 30 November 1917. The Duke of Brunswick therefore had no British titles of which he could be deprived. In a post to newsgroup alt.talk.royalty on 16 October 1996, citing Burke's Peerage as a source, Noel McFerran says that the Duke of Brunswick was named in the Order-in-Council which deprived the Dukes of Albany and Cumberland and the Viscount Taaffe of their titles, but only as being expressly forbidden from petitioning for the restoration of his father's peerage titles as would otherwise have been his right under the Act. Opera hat (talk) 12:36, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

The report of the Privy Council named (in its words):

• • His Royal Highness Leopold Charles, Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow.
  • His Royal Highness Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Earl of Armagh.
  • His Royal Highness Ernest Augustus (Duke of Brunswick), Prince of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • Henry, Viscount Taaffe of Corren and Baron of Ballymote.

So it would appear that Burke's is mistaken (now there's a surprise...). Proteus (Talk) 13:08, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

authorisation

The Titles Deprivation Act 1917 ... authorised enemies ... to be deprived of their British peerages and royal titles.

I'm not happy with this use of 'authorised': it seems to say that the Act allowed such persons to choose to be deprived! —Tamfang (talk) 23:51, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Proposed amendment to the Titles Deprivation Act

Should we mention MP Bob Seely's coming proposed amendment to the act, concerning the current Duke of Sussex? GoodDay (talk) 15:54, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Random backbencher proposes something that nobody's heard of and we don't even mention on the page about him? DuncanHill (talk) 15:57, 15 December 2023 (UTC)