Case lodged with European Court of Human Rights to remove gender bias among nobility

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Case lodged with European Court of Human Rights to remove gender bias among nobility

A case has been lodged in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg last week by five women to remove the state-sanctioned gender bias among the nobility and to give girls and boys equal rights to inherit.

In 2013, the royal laws of succession were amended to give equal rights to a baby girl, but attempts to extend this to the peerage came to nothing. Princess Charlotte of Cambridge was…

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