{"id":1794,"date":"2011-04-16T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2023-08-30T18:28:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:28:51","slug":"call-to-change-british-monarchy-succession-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"Call to Change British Monarchy Succession Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputy British PM, Nick Clegg, says\u00a0the law\u00a0that prevent a first-born royal female child from taking the throne ahead of a younger male child are &#8220;old-fashioned&#8221;. Actually, it&#8217;s sex-based discrimination. Suddenly, two weeks before the wedding of Prince William, heir to the heir to the British monarch, this is a hot topic.\u00a0 Two attempts in\u00a0the British Parliament,\u00a0in 2005 and\u00a02009,\u00a0to make this change\u00a0both failed.\u00a0 A similar proposal in Denmark lapsed when Frederick and Mary&#8217;s first child was male.\u00a0 WfaAR points out that changing the gender rules on succession will not remove other discriminatory features of the British\u00a0monarchy such as the fact that the\u00a0king\u00a0or queen\u00a0cannot be married to a Catholic set out in the 1701 Act of Settlement.\u00a0 Making this particular\u00a0change will not make having the British monarch as Australia&#8217;s head of state in a constitutional monarchy\u00a0more acceptable in anything but the most marginal sense.\u00a0 The same reasoning applies to having a female Governor-General as we do now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy British PM, Nick Clegg, says\u00a0the law\u00a0that prevent a first-born royal female child from taking the throne ahead of a younger male child are &#8220;old-fashioned&#8221;. Actually, it&#8217;s sex-based discrimination. Suddenly, two weeks before the wedding of Prince William, heir to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","wpcat-21-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","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=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}