Windsors To Be Protected From Unfair Discrimination

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Female and Catholic members of the Windsor family will be protected from gemder amd religious discrimination if government proposals becomes law.
According to a report in the Guardian newspaper the government intends to ask Parliament to change laws going back 300 years that determine which Windsor should become head of state.
At present Catholic members of the Windsor family and their spouses are specifically barred from becoming hereditary head of state. As the head of state is also head of the state Church of England, she or he is also required to be a Protestant Christian.
Male members of the Windsor family also have precedence over females when there is a vacancy for head of state.
The Guardian reported that the government would be proposing legislation to end both forms of discrimination. It also reported that the government intends that the powers of the privy council be reduced.
If the reforms are agreed all British citizens who are not members of the Windsor family will still be barred from consideration for the country’s chief public office. The effective constitutional ban on a non-white head of state will also continue.


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