Changing the Rules of Succession and the Problem of the Realms (27 Sept 2011) from the sovereign of all realms 163 eng sub Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 27 min 48 sec
✓ Published: 13-Oct-2011

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Prof Anne Twomey (University of Sydney)nnPointing out that current talk of ending male primogeniture and some anti-Catholic discrimination was merely the latest in a series of attempts to reform succession, Professor Twomey highlighted the reluctance of recent governments to actually implement reform – allegedly because of the complexity of dealing with the realms.nnThis reluctance was unfounded. Professor Twomey began with an outline of the Statute of Westminster, which in 1931 formally recog