Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will remain eighth in line to the British throne, Wonderwall.com can report, as parliamentary clerks drawing up a bill to have him removed have revealed there is no precedent on which to base the move. Sources have explained that efforts to pluck the disgraced former Duke of York from the line of succession would upend a 1701 law ensuring all descendants of the Electress Sophia of Hanover are included by birthright. The former Prince Andrew falls into that category.