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Article: Snids
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- November 3, 1996
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If constitutional changes now being considered in London had been
introduced long ago we'd never have heard of a modern prince called
Charles and Elizabeth and Philip would not be living in Buckingham
Palace. "And someone else would be on the throne," says Auckland
University historian Professor Michael Graves. They could be living
in contented obscurity. As a teacher, maybe, or as a fisherman in
Nelson. Even my Uncle Stanley, who recently sold his window-
cleaning
round, could be the rightful King of England. Legislation to stop
male offspring being the heirs apparent -- in preference to any
older
sisters -- is to be debated in the House of Lords. Lord Archer
denounces the present system ...