Beatrice Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady Kinloss

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Beatrice Mary Grenville Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady Kinloss (born 1922) is a Scottish Peeress.

She is the heir to Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp of Hache^{[citation needed]}, the only son of Lady Catherine Grey, herself the second daughter (after Lady Jane Grey) of Frances Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, herself the eldest daughter of Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk, herself a daughter of Henry VII and younger sister of Henry VIII. Had the marriage of Catherine Grey from which Edward Seymour was born ever been deemed legitimate for dynastic purposes, then he would supplant his second cousin, once removed—Lady Anne Stanley—in the order of succession and Lady Kinloss would be the genealogical representative of Mary, Duchess of Suffolk and Dowager Queen of France.

Were Lady Kinloss thus deemed and Lady Anne Stanley thus eliminated and had the Parliament-sanctioned testament of Henry VIII of England and the succession order there stipulated remained unchallenged for the more-than-four centuries since (that is, had Henry VIII's dictates prevailed: had the throne, on the extinction of his line, passed to the great-grandson of his younger sister, Mary, rather than to the great-grandson of his older sister, Margaret), Lady Kinloss might be reigning queen of England and Ireland, possessor of the throne acceded to in 1603 by James VI of Scotland.