PM and Palace 'discussed reform'

Now, I normally don't give two hoots what the royal family does or doesn't do. As an Irish woman, it's in my genetic make-up to not care, and I frankly don't believe they're any different to us mere mortals anyway. But this recent move has interested me. The PM is calling for an end to discrimination against women and it's possible that after 100s of years of male heirs succeeding to the throne before their older sisters, women will have equal rights to the throne. Man alive! Might the royal family be joining the rest of us in late modernity? The jury's still out.

Better still, bring on the Republic!