Succession to the Crown Act 1707 Succession to the Crown Act 1707 The Succession to the Crown Act 1707 (6 Ann c 41) is an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Great Britain. It is still partly in force in Great Britain. The Act was passed at a time when Parliament was anxious to ensure the succession of a Protestant on the death of Queen Anne. It replaced the Regency Act 1705. The Act required privy counsellors and other officers, in the event of Anne's death, to proclaim as her successor the next Protestant in the line of succession to the throne, and made it
Parliament House, Dublin its massive unionist majority, would not have passed it. Finally, the passage of the Parliament Act in 1911, which restricted the veto powers of the House of Lords, created space for an Irish Home Rule Bill to pass both Houses, receive the Royal Assent and become law. Leaders from O'Connell to Parnell and later John Redmond spoke of the proud day on which an Irish parliament might once again meet in what they called "Grattan's Parliament" in College Green. When, in 1911, King George V and his consort Queen Mary visited Dublin (where they attracted mass crowds), street sellers sold