Women to get the same rights as men in Royal succession

A law which means that Royal males are entitled to the throne before female relatives could be overturned!

Currently, the law states that the King or Queen's son will always be successor despite the fact that they may have older siblings.

However, some politicians think that this is unfair and would like to change the rules so that the eldest child will be coronated, regardless of gender. The Queen took the throne when her father King George VI died, because she has no brothers.

What would the change mean?

If Prince William and Kate's first child is a girl, she will be entitled to become Queen first, even though she is female.

But this new rule isn't going to change anything for older generations of the royal family, so Princess Anne wouldn't leapfrog her brothers Andrew and Edward.

What happens next?

The Prime Minister has to convince the Commonwealth ( the 16 countries including the UK that have the Queen as their monarch) to agree. The talk is planned to go ahead at the end of this month.

This a list of the first ten in line to the throne:

1. The Prince of Wales (Prince Charles)
2. The Duke of Cambridge (Prince William)
3. Prince Henry of Wales (Prince Harry)
4. The Duke of York (Prince Andrew)
5. Princess Beatrice of York
6. Princess Eugenie of York
7. The Earl of Wessex (Prince Edward)
8. Viscount Severn (Prince Edward's son)
9. The Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor (Prince Edward's daughter)
10. The Princess Royal (Princess Anne)