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Why did the Act of Settlement of 1701 choose Sophia of Hanover to be the starting point to all claims to the British throne?

Were there any descendants of Charles I that could have possibly had a better claim to the throne or were they all Catholics? Who would be the British monarch today if the rules were slightly different?

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