Church of England, chose to be confirmed into the Roman Catholic Church. He was therefore barred from the line of succession to the British throne according to the Act of Settlement 1701. As a second cousin once removed of King Charles III, Downpatrick is the most senior person excluded from the line of succession for being a Roman Catholic. , he would have been 42nd in line. He remains second in the line of succession, after his father, to the Dukedom of Kent. References Living people 1988 births 20th-century Roman Catholics 21st-century Roman Catholics Alumni of Keble College, Oxford British courtesy barons and lords of Parliament Bullingdon Club members Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism English fashion designers English people of Austrian descent English Roman Catholics Edward JPMorgan Chase employees People educated at Eton College