quarantine 'em

This obviously develops from Terry Pratchett's bit about kingons and queons and may hopefully lead to a Grand Unified Theory of monarchic force exchange

So, for example, suppose Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles were to die "simultaneously" - or rather, their deaths are spacelike-separated events

If I'm getting my succession rules correct, then an observer who sees Elizabeth die first would consider her son Charles to be the monarch from that point onwards. When Charles is observed to die, the throne passes to his son William (cont.)

"Meanwhile", an observer who saw Charles die first would consider Elizabeth to continue as Queen. On observing Elizabeth's death, they would consider the throne to have passed to her second child, Prince Andrew (I think?)

These two observers, one having observed the throne to pass to William and one having observed the throne to Andrew, would then meet up and have a relativistic royal succession crisis

One way to resolve this dispute would be to recognise an official neutral legal relativistic frame of reference, and take the observations from this frame of reference as authoritative, rather than those of any subjective observer

Another is to extend the concept I mentioned earlier where no two legal events may happen "simultaneously" to mean that no two legal events may be separated by a spacelike curve

This second solution seems less practical in a scenario where the Queen and Prince Charles might be on separate starships journeying to or from distinct distant stars at relativistic speeds