Elizabeth Ii Was ‘Lukewarm’ About Letting Princesses Take the Throne, Book Claims
2nd September 2025
The late Queen oversaw a change to the law of succession in 2013 that ensured the firstborn child of a monarch would be next in line to the throne regardless of gender.
However, a government source quoted on the subject in a new book has suggested that the monarch was lukewarm about making the change.
According to Power and the Palace, by Valentine Low, neither Queen Elizabeth nor her aides at Buckingham Palace showed any great eagerness when David Cameron, the then prime minister, set his sights on delivering a package of constitutional reform.
A lot of the damage done to British society has been done by nominally Conservative administrations, whom one would think would resist such changes; all to be Hip and Trendy.