BASHIR: Do you think the Prince of Wales will ever be King? DIANA: I don't think any of us know the answer to that. And obviously it's a question that's in everybody's head. But who knows, who knows what fate will produce, who knows what circumstances will provoke? BASHIR: But you would know him better than most people. Do you think he would wish to be King? DIANA: There was always conflict on that subject with him when we discussed it, and I understood that conflict, because it's a very demanding role, being Prince of Wales, but it's an equally more demanding role being King. And being Prince of Wales produces more freedom now, and being King would be a little bit more suffocating. And because I know the character I would think that the top job, as I call it, would bring enormous limitations to him, and I don't know whether he could adapt to that. BASHIR: Do you think it would make more sense in the light of the marital difficulties that you and the Prince of Wales have had if the position of monarch passed directly to your son Prince William? DIANA: Well, then you have to see that William's very young at the moment, so do you want a burden like that to be put on his shoulders at such an age? So I can't answer that question. BASHIR: Would it be your wish that when Prince William comes of age that he were to succeed the Queen rather than the current Prince of Wales? DIANA: My wish is that my husband finds peace of mind, and from that follows others things, yes. The Act 1 Anne Stat. 2 17021702 CHAPTER 21 1 Ann St 2X1An Act . . .F1 for the further Security of Her Majesties Person and the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line . . .F1 Annotations:  Editorial Information X1This Act is Chapter XVII in the Common printed Editions Amendments (Textual) F1Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1887 (c. 59) Modifications etc. (not altering text) C1Preamble omitted as not relevant to s. 3 [I.], II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2Annotations: Amendments (Textual) F2Ss. 1, 2, 4–12 repealed by Promissory Oaths Act 1871 (c. 48), Sch. 1 Pt. II IIIEndeavouring to hinder the Succession to the Crown according to the Limitations of Stat. and attempting the same by overt Act; High Treason. Limitations stated; and attempting the same by overt Act; High Treason.[X2And for the further Security of Her Majesties Person and the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and all other Pretenders and their open and secret Abettors if any Person or Persons . . . F3 shall endeavour to deprive or hinder any Person who shall be the next in Succession to the Crown for the Time being according to the Limitations in an Act intituled An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown and according to One other Act intituled An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject from succeeding after the Decease of Her Majesty (whom God long preserve) to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging according to the Limitations in the before mentioned Acts that is to say such Issue of Her Majesties Body as shall from time to time be next in Succession to the Crown if it shall please God Almighty to bless Her Majesty with Issue and during the Time Her Majesty shall have no Issue the Princess Sophia Electoress and Dutchess Dowager of Hanover and after the Decease of the said Princess Sophia the next in Succession to the Crown for the Time being according to the Limitation of the said Acts and the same malitiously advisedly and directly shall attempt by any overt Act or Deed every such Offence shall be adjudged High Treason and the Offender or Offenders therein their Abettors Procurers and Comforters knowing the said Offence to be done being thereof convicted or attainted according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm shall be deemed and adjudged Traytors and shall [F4be liable to imprisonment for life] . . . F3 as in Cases of High Treason] Annotations: Editorial Information X2The following Clause is annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule. Amendments (Textual) F3Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), Sch. 1 F4Words in s. 3 substituted (E.W.) (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 36(2)(c); S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)(g) IV—XII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 |
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