The Original Endasher

Well, one of my demands was met!

Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, also supports the change. “If Prince William and Catherine Middleton were to have a baby daughter as their first child, I think most people would think it fair and normal that she would eventually become queen of our country,” he said this year.

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The British Commonwealth (nee Empire) has been totally scared about changing its antiquated succession rules on gender and Catholics forever, under the assumption that bringing up the fairness and normality of a boy outranking his older sister might encourage the subjects to wonder about the fairness and normality of any newborn being the presumptive (or apparent) eventual king/queen of their countries. But in a year of revolutions, the British once again prove their brand of misrule as the most admirably adaptable on Earth. (Poor Habsburgs!)