Commonwealth agrees Royal succession change

CENTURIES of British royal discrimination came to an end yesterday after Commonwealth leaders agreed to drop rules giving sons precedence as heir to the throne and barring anyone in line for the crown from marrying a Catholic.

The 16 countries that have Queen Elizabeth II as their monarch agreed to the changes put forward by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who had called the rules of succession outdated.

“The idea that a younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he is a man, or that a future monarch can marry someone of any faith except a Catholic, this way of thinking is at odds with the modern countries that we’ve all become,” said Cameron.