{"id":1712,"date":"2012-05-09T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:12:39","slug":"queens-speech-to-uk-parliament-on-change-to-succession-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s Speech to UK Parliament on Change to Succession Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the opening of the UK Parliament, the Queen says, &#8220;My Government will continue to work with 15 other Commonwealth Realms to take forward reform of the rules governing succession to the Crown&#8221;.\u00a0 This means legislation to\u00a0provide that children inherit in birth order\u00a0irrespective of gender should be introduced this session after agreement by all the realms at CHOGM in Perth last year.\u00a0 The Deputy Prime Minister, NIck Clegg,\u00a0later confirmed that the date of effect would be October 2011.\u00a0 Progress is awaited with interest.\u00a0 The Brits have\u00a0had several attempts at this change in the last 10 years through\u00a0private members&#8217; bills rather than the Government taking the initiative as is the case this time round.\u00a0 Australia has already agreed to the change and will need to pass\u00a0similar legislation not only through the federal parliament but also through the six State parliaments, all of which have continuing constitutional links with Britain and its monarch\u00a0(also applies to Canada).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the opening of the UK Parliament, the Queen says, &#8220;My Government will continue to work with 15 other Commonwealth Realms to take forward reform of the rules governing succession to the Crown&#8221;.\u00a0 This means legislation to\u00a0provide that children inherit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20","wpcat-20-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","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=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}