Posts Tagged ‘heir’

Succession bill won’t let Catholics succeed to the throne

Friday, February 1st, 2013

A law change allowing a first-born daughter to succeed to the throne — and permitting an heir to the throne to marry a Catholic — has been passed by the House of Commons. But an effort by a Catholic MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg, to change the Succession to the Crown Bill so that a Catholic could Read more