Commonwealth to Change British Royal Succession Rules

At CHOGM in Perth, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, announces that all 16 Commowealth nations of which the British Monarch is head of state, have agreed that first-born daughters would inherit the title and that people married to Catholics would not be barred even though the monarch must be a Protestant as head of the Church of England.  WfaAR comments that will be interesting to see if the British press ahead with this if the next ‘first-born’ is a boy (as happened in Denmark in the last few years).  We further note that it is still a hereditary system of succession and will require legislation to pass the Australian federal parliament.  The UK Guardian reported that Cameron had previously played down the change because of British concerns that constitutional “tinkering could spark a fresh campaign for Australia to become a republic”… as if Britain doesn’t want Australia to become a republic because fall-out could destablise its government.