{"id":1844,"date":"2011-10-28T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2023-08-30T19:33:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T09:33:22","slug":"commonwealth-to-change-british-royal-succession-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth to Change British Royal Succession Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At CHOGM in Perth, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, announces that all 16 Commowealth nations\u00a0of which\u00a0the British Monarch is head of state,\u00a0have agreed that first-born daughters would inherit the title\u00a0and that people married to Catholics would not\u00a0be barred even though the monarch\u00a0must be\u00a0a\u00a0Protestant as\u00a0head of the Church of England.\u00a0\u00a0WfaAR comments that\u00a0will be interesting to see if the British press ahead with this if\u00a0the next &#8216;first-born&#8217; is a boy (as happened in Denmark in the last few years).\u00a0 We further note that it is still a hereditary system of succession and will require\u00a0legislation to pass the Australian\u00a0federal parliament.\u00a0 The UK\u00a0Guardian reported that Cameron had previously played down the change because of British concerns that constitutional &#8220;tinkering could spark a fresh campaign for Australia to become a republic&#8221;&#8230; as if Britain doesn&#8217;t want Australia to become a republic\u00a0because fall-out could\u00a0destablise its government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At CHOGM in Perth, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, announces that all 16 Commowealth nations\u00a0of which\u00a0the British Monarch is head of state,\u00a0have agreed that first-born daughters would inherit the title\u00a0and that people married to Catholics would not\u00a0be barred even though&#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-1844","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\/1844","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=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}