UK legislators hope to revoke 300-year-old law that give male heirs prior claim to throne
The Act of Settlement (1701) lays down that only Protestant heirs of Princess Sophia, granddaughter of James I, may succeed to the British throne. Neither Catholics, nor those who marry a Catholic, nor those born out of
wedlock, may remain in the line of succession
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