英王室女性将获同等王位继承权

Something gigantic happen to once upon a time, today all those stories about girls who want to be princess as well, guess what? The Nations of the British Commonwealth agree to change the rules after centuries, boys are no longer entitled to the first shot at the throne, ABC's Nick Watt is in London tonight with the big news for little girls everywhere.

Twelve hundred years of stuffy royal history was overturned today with these words.

Put simply, if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would have a little girl, that girl would one day be a queen. Because the law that put sons ahead of daughters in the line of succession is no more.

What it will do is ultimately put the Duchess of Cambridge on the map as the woman who changed royal history.

The quest for a male heir has obsessed British monarch for centuries. Henry VIII married six times, divorcing or beheading the wives who failed to produce a son.

This is the Queen's Head, my local pub, named after one of our most famous monarches, she was of course a woman but she only became Queen because she didn't have any brothers. And the current Queen only got the job back in 1952 because she was also brotherless.

If ever any example was needed that a woman can do a very very good job in the position, well, we have it in Queen Elizabeth II.

Now the only countries on earth in which younger brothers can still trump older sisters for the big chair are Saudi Arabia, Monaco, Thailand, Spain, Japan and Morocco.

And what do you think about it, Rose? Do you think it's good to girls can become queens as well?

Now I think it's brilliant, I do.

You think it's brilliant.

Yeah.

Why?

Why shouldn't girls become a Queen?

Politicians have tried 11 times to dash this law they called primogeniture. But they stumbled every time. This wedding gave the method some urgency.

Obviously, you know, we want a family, so, you know, we have to start thinking about that.

Now we are all thinking, will they have a King or a Queen.

Nick Watt, ABC news, London.