According to The Telegraph:
Newly-declassified documents showed Scotland’s first First Minister…consulted the Queen and the UK Government over…the ban on Roman Catholics ascending to the throne…
Last year the Coalition passed the Succession to the Crown Act 2013, which meant that members of the Royal Family who married a Catholic would no longer lose their place in line to the throne. However, the prohibition on monarchs being a Catholic remained in force.
Ending the ban would in theory mean a Catholic could become head of the Anglican Church, something some constitutional experts say would end the Church of England’s role as the established church.
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