Catholics are officially termed as being “naturally dead and deemed to be dead” in terms of succession. This distinction was first legislated in the Bill of Rights 1689. … “the Act of Settlement deems somebody who has been a Catholic for a minute to be ‘dead’ in terms of the succession, and it passes over them … Continue reading BBC video provides infallible proof that Elizabeth II forfeited the throne on June 2, 1953 and according to UK law Elizabeth II was dead – was never the Queen of the UK or Canada