The upcoming wedding of the Duke of Westminster to fiancee Olivia Henson has resulted in renewed calls to change the law that means firstborn daughters will not inherit titles over their younger brothers.
Only if a private members bill proposed by Harriett Baldwin - the Hereditary Titles Bill - is passed will their first child, if she is a girl, will inherit the Westminster title from her father. The bill proposed by Ms Baldwin has received the support of several MPs including Philip Davies, the Telegraph reports.
Along with the title came 140,000 acres of land in Oxfordshire, Cheshire, Lancashire and Scotland - and another 300 in Mayfair and Belgravia.The Cabinet Office and a large number of 92 male hereditary peers in the House of Lords have prevented earlier tries at changing the inheritance laws, causing anger among the women who could inherit them.
She said that the Muslim community discriminating against their daughters would be condemned but it that it is deemed acceptable 'because it involved posh people'. She said that girls were not 'as valued as boys are' and that aristocratic families want 'two sons - an heir and a spare - and the girls are the bit of fluff on the side'.