{"id":1008,"date":"2018-06-10T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:43:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:43:34","slug":"thought-for-queens-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Thought for Queen&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year our thoughts turn to the\u00a0ranking of women in the British royal family, our royal family too.\u00a0 In a recent documentary, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, was described as having become the second most important woman in the United Kingdom upon her marriage to the heir to\u00a0the throne.\u00a0The most important woman we must understand\u00a0is HM Elizabeth herself. Even upon marriage, these &#8220;commoners&#8221;: Kate, Camilla and now, the\u00a0American,\u00a0Meghan all become &#8220;Her Royal Highness&#8221; by virtue of\u00a0her husband&#8217;s ranking in the order of precedence but the\u00a0blood-born princesses all have higher ranking\u00a0than they\u00a0do and they are required to curtsy to them, even to Princess Charlotte who is only three years old. The\u00a0notion that one woman &#8211; or one\u00a0person &#8211;\u00a0is more &#8220;important&#8221;,\u00a0that is,\u00a0has\u00a0innate higher merit\u00a0than another is so un Australian,\u00a0WfaAR feels no\u00a0obligation to comment further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year our thoughts turn to the\u00a0ranking of women in the British royal family, our royal family too.\u00a0 In a recent documentary, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, was described as having become the second most important woman in the United Kingdom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","wpcat-14-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}