Fortunately, they seemed outdated to someone and Parliament agreed. Today they have altered a more than 300 year-old rule so that now any first-born child of the current king and queen can inherit the throne, even if that child is a girl.
October 28, 2011
Women & Royalty
As a follow up to the women & academia post a few weeks ago, I thought this story from NBC nightly news particularly noteworthy. We do not often think of western nations as the ones "behind the times," and even as someone who studies British Literature from the nineteenth-century, it honestly didn't occur to me just how outdated the rules of succession in Britain were.
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Yay! (although the whole royalty thing is still a little strange to me)
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