English claims to the French throne usually omitted from regnal lists. English claims to the French throne From the 1340s to the 19th century, excluding two brief intervals in the 1360s and the 1420s, the kings and queens of England (and, later, of Great Britain) also claimed the throne of France. The claim dates from Edward III, who claimed the French throne in 1340 as the sororal nephew of the last direct Capetian, Charles IV. Edward and his heirs fought the Hundred Years' War to enforce this claim, and were briefly successful in the 1420s under Henry V and Henry VI, but the House of Valois,
Succession to the Throne Act, 2013 Dominions. The "Succession to the Throne Act 1937" stated: "The alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne set forth in the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom intituled 'His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act, 1936' is hereby assented to." The "Succession to the Throne Act 1937", however, also included His Majesty's "Declaration of Abdication Act 1936" in a schedule, something the "Succession to the Throne Act 2013" does not do with the "Succession to the Crown Bill 2012". Bill C-53 was, along with English and French language versions of the "Succession to the Crown Bill