My apologies. Clovis is indeed the third prince...but Lelouch is the eighth PRINCE, and, if you count the PRINCESSES coming in between, he is the seventeenth in LINE for the throne.
He was just one of the youngest imperial children born so he's quite at the bottom of the ladder, like Nunnally. However, if someone before him, be it a prince or a princess, dies, he'll go one notch up the succession line.
Lelouch nevertheless cannot become the Emperor as the throne goes to the firstborn, who is the bearded prince shown in the pic I posted earlier on.
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He was just one of the youngest imperial children born so he's quite at the bottom of the ladder, like Nunnally. However, if someone before him, be it a prince or a princess, dies, he'll go one notch up the succession line.
Lelouch nevertheless cannot become the Emperor as the throne goes to the firstborn, who is the bearded prince shown in the pic I posted earlier on.