I've always been interested in Princess Anne & I wish the rule about male/female succession had been changed retrospectively as she's infinitely more suited to being monarch than her two younger brothers. She's probably happy with her lot though & didn't want titles for her husband or children. She works incredibly hard, she's thrifty, clever & very witty. She's a bit older than I am but she's my generation & I've grown up alongside her. I like her for not bowing to media pressure to be the kind of princess they wanted & instead being true to herself.
She wouldn't be Queen anyway because Prince Charles, her older brother, has several descendants of his own (two sons and three grandchildren already, with a fourth grandchild on his/her way).
Personally, I think it was correct to introduce equal primogeniture in the UK only for people born after 2011. Changing the line of succession retroactively, as it was done with practical effects in Belgium, Denmark and Sweden, and without any practical effect (AFAIK) in the Netherlands, is wrong IMHO because it could be interpreted as an "ex post facto" law. That is somewhat controversial, however, as some experts claim that one's place in the line of succession is not an acquired right, but rather only an "expectation of right", which would become an acquired right only if and when that person were actually in a concrete position to ascend the throne. I leave that discussion to the legal experts though.
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