One story that made me smile this week is the confirmation that if Will and Kate’s first child is a little girl, then she can become queen.
For hundreds of centuries it ruled that boys had first dibs but after the Queen gave it the thumbs up it was all change.
This is definitely an adjustment for the better, bringing the Monarchy into the 21st century where gender equality has developed quite something in the last three hundred years!
Some of our greatest Queens have been women; Mary, Victoria and of course Elizabeth so getting rid of the old sexist rule proves that female equality is something that the royals think highly of.
Big changes to society such as this are yet another step forward in banishing sexism and although us girls have come far in the last hundred years, there’s still a little way to go yet. Think about the preference in jobs that men often get or the difference in pay they quite often receive on the quiet for doing exactly the same job as us.
The Queen’s “Women of Acts of Change” speech asked for further reforms “to allow all girls and women to play their full part.”
I think it’s brilliant that the Queen is recognising the aspirations and potential of women and who better to campaign for girl power now The Spice Girls aren’t around anymore.
It's hard to argue with the argument that primogeniture deserves to be banished to the dustbin of history - but I'm interested to know what you think of the institution of monarchy itself. Do you think this change (another in a line of 'modernisations') is calculated to try to protect the royals from the republicans for another generation?
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