Apparently Vera Baird, the Solicitor General says the Government are finally looking to changing this Act, which is the one that insists on male primogeniture for inheriting the Monarchy.
About time too, I say. When women are supposed to be equal, and her present Majesty has done such a fine job for the last 50 years or so, what is the point in making girls step aside for a younger brother?
And of course by doing it now, before Prince William gets married and has children, is the ideal time. Prince Charles is the Queen's eldest child and he has only two boys to succeed him - so there is nobody whose nose might be put out of joint by the change.
They are also looking to change the rule that says anyone wanting to be in line of succession can't be, or marry, a Roman Catholic. Do it, and let's finally get on with disestablishment of the church and state while we're about it, which has been rumbling about since Victorian times. (Every schoolboy should know that the longest word in the English language is antidisestablishmentarianism!)
21/04/08 @ 00:39