Yes that was my feeling too - whilst the males are favoured, there is also a favour to a direct line even if it skips a generation.

And surely, if that were so, how did QV succeed to the throne ? There must have been a male cousin somewhere along the line who would have succeeded in her place.

And it wouldn't matter if a potential granRABon came along far into the future - as long as he was born before the death of the present incumbent.

Edit

Just having read the previous post by RoyalMile - I can see now.

The "entail" was basically a Will - and so does not necessarily follow standard / legal inheritance convention.