Anyhow, I am a woman, and I think this attempt to alter the traditional rules on primogeniture is a waste of time. I don’t feel that it will do anything to affect the daily degradation endured by many women and girl-children in Britain let alone the rest of the world.

Unfortunately, I have to say the whole thing looks just like the usual predominant focus on middle and upper class women and their rights to compete with men for well-paid and higher status jobs.

Though I do also have an instinctive dislike of anonymous comments (I do let them through as there are some cases when anonymity is ok, but my preference is against them).

One other thing, am I the only person who thinks that anonymous criticism is impolite, ill-mannered, possibly even needlessly rude?

Finally, I’m hardly “right-wing”. Campbell Bannerman was our man….pity there’s no political party left that follows his precepts.

Why the needless rudeness rather than politely pointing that you interpret a sentence a different way?

I suppose it’s a bit much to expect logic from a politician but the very point you’re complaining about is that if William’s first legitimate child is a daughter she won’t in fact be his heir.

To the anti-monarchist poster: erm the most egalitarian countries in Europe are Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. What do they have in common? Yup, they’re all monarchies!!!