What would REALLY happen if the entire royal family was wiped out?

check out this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_succession_to_the_British_Throne

Basil:Don't

mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.

As another post showed, there are thousands in ine for the throne....what kinda changes is the family name,...which is tied in a way that don't fully understand to the male line of succession.

In England there were the Tudors and the windsors and the Plantagenets and a few more I forget.

They pretty much all we're related....but the family name changed based on where in the family the next sovereign was from.

If you look at the current British royal family line it's very interesting..,.around WWI it was supposed to be a German family name but with WWI that would never do....so they chose Windsor....the name Windsor was conceptually supposed to be changed when the current Queen Elizabeth got married....but her mother (or grandmother I forget) said *beep* that keep your name....so it stayed Windsor,...and ironically the theoretical new name was also German.

So we still have windsors even though technically that line died out seventy years ago.