For example if two people die in a car crash and have conflicting wills, you place one death before the other and execute the wills in that order
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If the neutral frame of reference is Earth, the first solution is also impractical because, if you were near Elizabeth at the time she died, it would be impossible to know who was the new monarch without consulting Earth, a round trip of potentially years
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So I guess what you'd do is pick the *current monarch*'s frame of reference as authoritative?
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So it doesn't matter if, in your frame of reference, Charles died first. In Elizabeth's frame of reference, Charles was her successor in her forward light cone and that's what counts
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This leads to a scenario where, in a relativistically colonial fashion, Charles was only ever monarch over a tract of spacetime which he was unable to ever visit or actively rule, due to being spacelike-separated from it
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Ah, it looks like succession doesn't work in the way I described, William ends up monarch no matter what
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Okay, instead imagine a new scenario where William is *being born* right at the same instant that Charles dies, so the question is how the line of succession gets juggled
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That doesn't solve the problem, because then you have to resolve the question of "who is the current monarch?"
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More precisely, the whole of the Empire may not agree on who the current monarch is, so succession may not be able to resolve at all until the relevant information about said monarch's worldline is received by all interested parties.
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