That’s likely only to have been because Hazno demanded it due to being higher up the LOS and precedence list though. They were spitting their dummies out all the over the place about everything so I can’t see Smeg agreeing to sit and wait her turn when she was so desperate to hurry him down the aisle and secure her royal status.
Yes, the entire moonbump with odd births and substitute children thing might be one giant game of paranoid secrecy on his part and controversy generating shenanigans on her part, gaslighting and fooling us all!
But I think they used surrogates and or that one or even both of them are biologically the parents. I’ve always thought the children exist - I just think they have an absolute paranoid nutter for a father and are being effectively kept in prison and so dummies and photoshop and child actors are regularly used. It would be so utterly batshit crazy long term to not actually have children that I can’t conceive even this pair of nutters would attempt it.
I think the RF would not even be able to imagine one of their own would plan to commit treasonous fraud with the line of succession by inserting a surrogate born kid that I think they were in the dark until perhaps well after the actual birth. No one was allowed to even hold Archificial, and barely saw him. So DNA testing may never have happened and I think it’s illegal to do without a parents’ agreement anyway. Certainly they couldn’t violate or expose a kid’s medical details. They still may not have DNA evidence or an officially quotable fertility doctor’s statement. And without cast iron proof, refusing LOS status while all the racism crap and losing PP was going on and and then QEII was mourning and dying would have been too much, I think, for people to want to burden her with and spoil the jubilee and end of her reign. That kicking the can down the road has left KCIII to have to carry it for her though.
However, they have held back the press on this until the corrie was safely done to prevent it ruining the whole thing, but they cannot and won’t want to do it forever. If the injunction is lifted, the media will do the RF’s job of exposing and providing proof for them and since I don’t think they knew until too late, I don’t see that it makes the institution culpable. Tangled up in the mess, yes but they’re not to blame for it. The only people at true fault are the two who conspired to the fraud and I think the world will agree with that.