Gordon Brown has opened talks with Buckingham Palace and Commonwealth leaders over abolishing the Act of Settlement which bars Catholics from the Royal Family.
Mr Brown is also pressing for collective action to end primogeniture which favours males over over female heirs to the British monarchy.
The bar on Catholics has long been regarded as a symbol of sectarian prejudice but according to some legal opinion its abolition requires legislation in every nation of which the Queen is sovereign. Read more
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Friday 27 March 2009
Brown in talks to let women and Catholics inherit throne
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