Exciting royal news! If Will and Kate's first child is a girl, she will be first in line to the throne, even if she has brothers
By Haley Overland
Updated Mar 29, 2017Welcome to the new millennium, Royal Family!
Great news, Gorgeouses! There has been a new ruling: should Prince William and Duchess Catherine have a girl first, she will be first in line to the throne -- even if she has brothers. Sayonara, 1701 Act of Settlement! (More below....)
The leaders of 16 commonwealth countries, including Canada, agreed to the rule change -- after centuries!
Here's what the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said in a speech at the Commonwealth conference in Perth, Australia:
The idea that a younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he's a man, or that a future monarch can marry someone of any faith except a Catholic -- this way of thinking is at odds with the modern countries that we’ve all become.
...Put simply, if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were to have a little girl, that girl would one day be our queen. (qtd. in LA Times)
The Catholic marriage ban was also lifted. Here's what Prime Minister Stephen Harper had to say:
There was universal agreement, unanimous agreement that these changes simply recognize the equality of women and Catholics and they're long overdue. (qtd. in CTV.ca)
Revolutionary, huh, Gorgeouses?!
Love!
xo Haley-O
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