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Thanks to a series of tiny loopholes in Canadian law, it’s technically possible that Canada could immediately crown Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as King and Queen of Canada.

The theory was devised by Philippe Lagasse, a Carleton University professor and one of Canada’s leading experts on the impenetrable morass that is the Westminster system.

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“According to the federal government’s interpretation of royal succession in Canada, we could arguably make Harry the King of Canada with a simple parliamentary statute,” he wrote in 2017.

Lagasse’s “King Harry” theory is predicated on the notion that Canada’s constitution is pretty clear that the country’s executive authority is “vested in the Queen” — but it doesn’t specify who that Queen must be.

There is nothing in Canadian law that explicitly states that our monarch must be a descendant of Queen Victoria, or even that the monarch of Canada has to be the same person as the monarch of the U.K.

As the sixth in line to the British throne, under current circumstances Harry won’t have a shot at becoming King of Canada unless there’s some kind of devastating royal blimp crash.

But Canada could conceivably bump him to the front of the line with little more than an act of parliament — meaning that Harry’s rust-coloured head could be on our coins within the span of a month.