One of several English Acts, that of 1701 being the most politically significant. It provided for the succession to the throne after the death of Queen Anne’s last surviving child, and was intended to prevent the Roman Catholic Stuarts from regaining the throne. It stipulated that the crown should go to James I’s granddaughter, the Electress Sophia of Hanover, or her surviving Protestant heirs. The Act placed further limitations on royal power, and made the judiciary independent of crown and Parliament. On Anne’s death in 1714, Sophia’s son became Britain’s first Hanoverian monarch as George I. Following the Succession to the Crown Act 2013, marriage to a Roman Catholic no longer bars succession to the Crown. The Act also cancelled primogeniture - making succession to the Crown no longer dependent on gender. Males born after 28 October 2011 no longer precede their elder sisters in the line of succession.