Equal Inheritance for UK Royals Regardless of Gender

In a step towards equal rights for members of the UK royal family, the Sovereign Grant Act which gives female heirs equal rights has been passed by the British Parliament.  One clause provides for an heir to the throne who is not the Duke of Cornwall to receive revenues from the Duchy.  This Act does not affect the 1701 Act of Settlement under which male children take precedence over female children in the line of succession regardless of birth order.  Although these moves reduce the sex discrimination existing within the British royal family, it does little to increase the British monarch’s acceptability to head the Australian Government under our Constitution.