sentences:  Thus, the king nominated, as his successor, the brother of his first queen who had remained at the court ever since his sister married him.According to the law of succession that prevailed in Ceylon, the throne passed almost always from father to son, born of a mahesi or from brother to brother.However, when Narendra Sinha's brother-in-law succeeded the throne, the Sinhalese Kandyan aristocracy had no problem with this new form of succession.