{"id":1830,"date":"2011-10-10T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2023-08-30T19:29:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T09:29:32","slug":"equal-inheritance-for-uk-royals-regardless-of-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"Equal Inheritance for UK Royals Regardless of Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a step towards equal rights for members of the UK royal family, the Sovereign Grant Act which gives female heirs equal rights\u00a0has been passed\u00a0by the British Parliament.\u00a0 One clause provides for an heir to the throne who is not the Duke of Cornwall to receive revenues from the Duchy.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Although these moves reduce the sex discrimination\u00a0existing within\u00a0the British royal family,\u00a0it does little to increase\u00a0the British monarch&#8217;s acceptability\u00a0to head the Australian Government under our Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a step towards equal rights for members of the UK royal family, the Sovereign Grant Act which gives female heirs equal rights\u00a0has been passed\u00a0by the British Parliament.\u00a0 One clause provides for an heir to the throne who is not&#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-1830","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\/1830","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=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}