Britain rewrites rules for royal line of succession

If William,Kate have a little girl,shell one day be our Queen: Cameron

Hours after the Queen declared open the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth and urged leaders to find ways to allow all girls and women to play their full part,British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a consensus on ending laws that bar a first-born daughter in case she has a brother or a person married to a Roman Catholic from inheriting the British throne.

Referring to William and Kate whose wedding this year was televised live across the world,Cameron said: If the duke and duchess of Cambridge were to have a little girl,that girl would one day be our queen.

We will end the male primogeniture rule so that in future,the order of succession should be determined simply by the order of birth, Cameron told reporters in the presence of his Australian counterpart Julia Gillard.

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He said this move had the backing of 16 nations which have Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State. These include Australia,New Zealand and Canada.

The changes,he said,would do away with rules that just dont make sense to us any more.

We have agreed to scrap the rule which says that no one who marries a Roman Catholic can become monarch.

It is simply wrong that they should be denied the chance to marry a Catholic if they wish to do so. After all,they are already quite free to marry someone of any other faith, he said.

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