Where Harry and Meghans new daughter Lili falls in the line of succession?
The Duke and Duchess of Sussexs new baby daughter Lili is eighth in line to the throne. The first seven places remain unchanged  the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, Harry, and Archie Mountbatten-Windsor. Harry retained his place in the line of succession despite quitting royal life, and dropping his HRH style. The Prince of Wales The Duke of Cambridge Prince George Princess Charlotte Prince Louis The Duke of Sussex Archie Mountbatten-Windsor Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor The Duke of York Princess Beatrice Princess Eugenie August Brooksbank  With the arrival of Harry and Meghans new addition to the family, the Duke of York, who was born second in line in 1960, has moved down to ninth place. Andrew stopped carrying out royal duties in 2019 following his controversial Newsnight interview over his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The baby girl has been named Lilibet after the Queens family nickname but she will be known as Lili. She has entered the line of succession behind her older brother Archie. Royal baby (PA Archive)  Andrews eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice, has moved to 10th in line. His youngest, Princess Eugenie, has fallen out of the top 10 to become 11th in line, and her son August has moved to 12th place, the Earl of Wessex to 13th place and the Princess Royal to 16th. There will be further changes in the autumn when Beatrices baby arrives and becomes 11th in line. Lili is the Queens 11th great-grandchild, and the first of the monarch and the Duke of Edinburghs great-grandchildren to be born since Philips death in April. Princess Eugenie wedding  The Queens great-grandchildren are: Savannah and Isla Phillips; George, Charlotte and Louis; Mia, Lena and Lucas Tindall; Archie and his sister, and August Brooksbank. Beatrices son or daughter will become the monarchs 12th great-grandchild. The Sussexe  new baby will not require the Queens permission to marry. For hundreds of years, the Royal Marriages Act 1772 meant descendants of George II had to seek the sovereigns consent before they wed, otherwise their marriages were deemed invalid. Savannah Phillips Isla Phillips Prince George Mia Tindall Princess Charlotte Prince Louis Lena Tindall Archie Mountbatten-Windsor August Brooksbank Lucas Tindall Lili Mountbatten-Windsor  But this law was repealed through the Succession to the Crown Act 2013, which restricted the consent to just the first six people in the line of succession. As the new baby is eighth in line, she will not at present need to seek a monarchs approval to wed.  She might have to do so in the future though, when the Duke of Cambridge eventually becomes king and if there have been no further additions ahead of her in the succession line. George III, George IIs grandson, had ordered the 1772 Act after his younger brother, the Duke of Cumberland, secretly married Lady Anne Horton, deemed to be a highly disreputable widow of a commoner.