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United Kingdom Commonwealth removes gender discrimination from royal succession
Published on 28/10/2011
At a meeting in Australia, the 16 countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state have agreed to scrap rules that give boys automatic preference in the royal succession over girls.