Female Succession and Related Issues

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[Toledo]

Wow, I've never been the first one in a new thread! Thanks @Somebody

Re female succession rules, my opinion is for the limited amount of European monarchies to survive they need to keep up with the times. From what I recall growing up in very chauvinistic Franco Spain in the 1960s, a lot of pressure was put on Juan Carlos for a male heir to a point his rival cousin married into the Franco family as the plan B to keep the surname Borbon going.

We are in 2025, a surname is just a bunch of letters and when a female heir marries she should be in charge of keeping her name and transferring it to her son or daughter to keep traditional dynasty name to stay. Therefore the first born, girl or boy, should inherit as long as they are in good health and prepared for the role as adults.

Now in other non-European countries, the culture has to be respected and not imposed Western ideas unless the people in these countries are willing to accept them as theirs. Places like Japan and the Middle East had their own set of rules and my very progressive western mind has no right to impose my ideas on them anymore than a male heir rule country can tell an European monarchy to go Salic law in this era.