Succession to the Crown Bill

My Lords, I enter this important debate with some trepidation. I cannot help wishing that the Dep...

My Lords, I wish to begin by expressing admiration for the attitude that has been taken by the 16...

Is the Church of Scotland an established Church? I think not.

Yes, it is an established Church. It seems to me that the time has come to recognise that the ess...

I fully support the Bill, but if we are going to go into history, it is terribly important to rem...

I understand why they entered into our constitution but to judge people on the basis of their bel...

Did my noble friend notice that the right reverend Prelate said that he did not think that those ...

I entirely agree with my noble friend. It seems to me that we should not allow our future disposi...

On both sides.

On both sides—I accept that. I hope that we can accept as a very valuable step in the right direc...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a former Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty’s Household and I wel...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill. The Church of England, as has been intimated, is, broadly speaking,...

I am most grateful to the right reverend Prelate for giving way. As a member of the Church of Sco...

Our position would be that it is very important that the monarch, as Supreme Governor of the Chur...

My Lords, in rising to intervene in this debate, let me start by saying that a powerful case can ...

My Lords, I give this Bill my enthusiastic welcome. The issues have been debated frequently, ther...

My Lords, I declare an interest as father and stepfather of five admirable females, each of whom ...

As I understand it, the regent is not Supreme Governor of the Church of England, which rather sug...

I respectfully agree with my noble friend and the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, on this point.

My ...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. I, too, must ...

Walter Bagehot wrote in 1867 that,

“one-half of the human race cares … fifty times more for...

I am very grateful to my noble friend for giving way. I, too, was on the Constitution Committee w...

I thank my noble friend. This is a great matter. It is not possible for a child of a monarch to b...

My Lords, I wholeheartedly welcome every aspect of the Bill. My peerages currently descend

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My Lords, I am pleased to be able to participate in this Second Reading debate because it is an i...

My Lords, I suppose that I should declare an interest as a member of the Church of England who is...

My Lords, 325 years ago, the streets were full of a tumult of people celebrating the fact that th...

I have stood at the Dispatch Box and signalled the ceding of the royal prerogative on more than o...

I am grateful for that intervention. The fact that that would apply in this case should be read i...

I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way. I think he is mistaken. I think he is building a...

I am grateful for all helpful contributions.

The Bill of Rights was read to William and Mar...

1952!

1952, sorry. We have a very serious question now as to the legitimacy of the action that we are t...

My Lords, may I say how much I welcome this Bill on behalf of these Benches and on my own behalf?...

My Lords, I had anticipated the argument concerning the alteration of the Declaration of Rights, ...

My Lords, I am afraid that I disagree with the noble Lord because the Act of Settlement expressly...

My Lords, even as the 18th speaker in this distinguished and very interesting debate, I have an o...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Swynnerton. Living near Winch...

My Lords, I enter the forum with some trepidation. These are very complex and sensitive matters. ...

My Lords, I intervene in the gap merely to remind the House that we learn to live with anomaly—in...

My Lords, I thank all speakers for contributing to this wide-ranging debate, in which we have hea...

My Lords, I begin by thanking all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. It has lived up ...

Very briefly, I understand what the Minister is saying about the Duchy of Cornwall but if there w...

I think I am right in saying that there is a council of the Duchy. Indeed, that position arose wh...

Perhaps I should pick up the point that my noble and learned friend made about the princedom of W...

That would be a matter for the sovereign, just as the present Prince of Wales did not automatical...

Before my noble and learned friend sits down, is there not a terribly simple way out? That is, to...

My Lords, my noble friend makes an important contribution to that debate. I hope that he will rec...

I thank my noble and learned friend for giving way. When he says that it is not an issue for this...

My Lords, I believe that this would go beyond the scope of the Bill. Something as profound as tha...

Before my noble friend leaves this matter, while recognising that the Bill may not be the right p...

I am sorry to disappoint my noble friend, but the Government do not have plans to do that, althou...

Will my noble and learned friend say a word about the Lordship of Man, which I raised?

The position with the Lordship of Man is exactly the same. No change is anticipated. The Queen wo...

My Lords, I beg to move that the Bill be committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

My Lords, can I persuade my noble friend not to press this Motion at this moment? I am not remote...

My Lords, we were given notice that my noble friend might raise this matter. We are going to make...