Commonwealth Monarchy Changes?

From Yahoo News:
"Commonwealth to discuss changing royal succession"

Commonwealth leaders will discuss proposals to change the rules of succession for the British throne when they meet in Australia later this month, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Cameron wrote to the leaders of the 15 other Commonwealth realms which have Queen Elizabeth II as their head of state in September to propose allowing first-born daughters and heirs who marry Catholics to inherit the throne.

There has long been discussion about changing the archaic and discriminatory rules, but the issue has taken on fresh urgency since the marriage of Prince William, the second in line to the throne, to the former Kate Middleton in May. Proposals to change the law, which must be approved by all the affected realms, will now be discussed at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Perth, western Australia, from October 28 to 30. The queen will attend the Commonwealth meeting. A palace spokesman said: "This is a matter for government, in consultation with Commonwealth realms." The first proposed change would be to scrap the rule which says an elder daughter should take a place in the line of succession behind a younger son, something Cameron told Commonwealth leaders was contrary to gender equality. He also wants to end the situation whereby heirs who marry Catholics cannot take the throne, arguing: "This rule is a historical anomaly." Finally, Cameron has proposed amending the rule that any descendants of the 18th century king George II require the monarch's permission to marry, so that it only applies to the first six in line to the throne. The 15 realms being consulted are Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.

^ I think these changes are needed. It is the 21st Century and are long over-due. I think the main points that need to be changed are allowing the monarch to marry a Catholic (on non-Protestant) and first-born females should have priority over males. Hopefully the countries in the British Commonwealth can come together and modernize the monarchy. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/commonwealth-discuss-royal-succession-131635363.html