Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, have been informed that if their first born child is a daughter, she could one day be crowned the future Queen of England.
Prime Minister David Cameron has put forth plans to change the British Royal rules of succession. Current laws state that if William and Kate’s first child is a daughter but their second born is a son, the boy would inherit the throne.
Cameron said, “We espouse gender equality in all other aspects of life, and it is an anomaly that in the rules relating to the highest public office we continue to enshrine male superiority.”
The Prime Minister is also working on lifting the ban on British monarchs marrying Roman Catholics.
Queen Elizabeth II, the eldest of two daughters in a family without sons, ascended to the throne when her father King George VI died in 1952.
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