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Kate, Wills and the Commonwealth can relax; Queensland has passed its succession bill. In the "spirit of compromise" the state government has also made an amendment to the bill requesting the federal government implement its own legislation. The
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Law ending exclusively male royal succession now law The Duchess of Cambridge's first child is due in mid-July A bill which ends succession to the Crown based on gender has become law. It means the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first child could
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Leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth in 2011 agreed in principle to change laws relating to Britain's succession. A monarch's firstborn son becomes heir to the throne under current laws. In anticipation of the birth of
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Queensland will pass its own laws dealing with changes to royal succession rules, in line with the government's stance in December. At last year's Council of Australian Government's meeting, the federal government had wanted each state to refer its
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The federal government will introduce legislation Thursday to end a centuries-old rule that discriminates against female heirs to the British throne. The bill will reflect a joint commitment made by Canada and 15 other nations from Commonwealth
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In a break with more than 300 years of English constitutional tradition, laws that would have passed the Crown to the oldest male heir will not apply, the Telegraph reported. Under the previous rules of primogeniture, any male child would have taken
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They're baggage-free, a signal accomplishment given their eight years of being hunted by the depraved British news media...So in our throwaway, hyper-obsolescence culture, talk in the Queen's realms has been turning to skipping the next generation
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Story continues below Apparently their union, far from being as vulnerable as the history of Windsor marriages might suggest, is going to demonstrate how, despite ''all its anachronistic trappings, [the monarchy] has been repeatedly reinvented with
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The British government has accepted that laws surrounding succession to the throne could be "discriminatory" and that "discussions have started" to change them, CNN has learned. Current rules state older daughters are overlooked in favor of the first-
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WPA Pool/Getty Images Is Prince William the heir to the throne?...DesiLuv, via the inbox Sorry, but don't look for Prince William to take the big chair anytime soon. Yes, there are some indications that the British public would love to see Kate
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