The Solicitor General, Vera Baird, is looking to use equal opportunities laws to supercede the rule - set out in the 1701 Act of Settlement - that the throne may only pass to a royal daughter if the monarch has no male heirs.
The current regulations were “unfair” and “a load of rubbish”, she said, adding that “the ban on Catholics should be abolished, too, because that is discriminatory.”
When asked whether restricting the succession exclusively to members of one particular family might not also be considered to be somewhat discriminatory, Ms Baird was, however, strangely silent.
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