| 词条 | Equality (Titles) Bill |
| 释义 |
|short_title = Equality (Titles) Bill |parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom |long_title = A Bill to make provision for the succession of female heirs to hereditary titles; for husbands and civil partners of those receiving honours to be allowed to use equivalent honorary titles to those available to wives; and for connected purposes. |year = 2013 |statute_book_chapter = |introduced_by = The Lord Lucas and Dingwall |territorial_extent = |royal_assent = |commencement = |repeal_date = |amendments = |related_legislation = |repealing_legislation= |status = Not_passed |original_text = |legislation_history = |use_new_UK-LEG = |revised_text = }} The Equality (Titles) Bill, known colloquially as the "Downton Law" and "Downton Abbey Law",[1] was a Bill of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that would end a measure of gender discrimination and allow for equal succession of female heirs to hereditary titles and peerages.[2] The primogeniture legislation, in conjunction with the Succession to the Crown Act 2013, would align hereditary titles in accordance with the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act. OverviewThe bill was dubbed the "Downton law" in reference to the British television drama Downton Abbey where the Earl's eldest daughter is unable to inherit the family seat because it can only be passed to a male heir.[2]The Equality (Titles) Bill was precipitated by the passage of the 2013 Succession to the Crown Act, which altered the laws of succession to the British throne so that male heirs no longer precede their elder sisters. The bill was sponsored by the Lord Lucas and Dingwall[4] in the House of Lords and has had two readings.[3] The Queen consented to the bill's procession.[4] Conservative MP Mary Macleod has sponsored the bill in the House of Commons and pointed out that only two of House of Lords' 92 hereditary peers are women.[5] After peer Lord Trefgarne remarked that the changes in succession would "set the hare running" on other inherited titles, a campaign group named "The Hares" was established. Prominent female aristocratic members of The Hares included Lady Sarah Carnegie, Lady Kitty Spencer, Lady Liza Campbell, Lady Saffron McDonnell and Lady Mary Charteris. [8] Lady Sarah Carnegie served as the face of the movement, as after her the death of her father, the 14th Earl of Northesk, her title was legally claimed by a male 8th cousin instead of herself, her father's eldest surviving child.[6][7] Despite the bill being in favour of gender equality, several female aristocrats refused to support the bill. Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland, mother of the british fashion model and eldest child Lady Violet Manners, gave an interview to The Express, in which she stated that "[she was] delighted that the estate would be passed on to [her] son Charles, Marquess of Granby, instead of [her] first born Violet. It is a responsibility and a responsibility I am glad that my daughter does not have to bear.”[8] An amendment to the bill that would exclude baronetcies from its scope has been opposed by David Roche, Roddy Llewellyn, and Nicholas Stuart Taylor of the Stuart Taylor Baronetcy as well as Lord Monson.[9] A number of the bill's supporters have titles that are in danger of dying out, as their only heirs are female.[10] The bill did not progress beyond the committee stage and will make no further progress, despite attracting the support of 345 members of Parliament and the former Home Secretary David Blunkett .[11] See also
References1. ^{{cite news|last=Collins|first=Lauren|title=Ladies First!|url=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/12/09/131209ta_talk_collins|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=9 December 2013}} 2. ^1 {{cite news|last=Graham|first=Georgia|title=Ladies who could soon be a leaping|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10540898/Ladies-who-could-soon-be-a-leaping.html|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=29 December 2013}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Bill stages – Equality (Titles) Bill [HL] 2013–14|url=http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/equalitytitles/stages.html|accessdate=30 December 2013}} 4. ^{{cite news|title=Queen gives green light to removing gender bias from titles|url=http://royalcentral.co.uk/politics/queen-gives-green-light-to-removing-gender-bias-from-titles-18915|newspaper=Royal Central|date=1 November 2013}} 5. ^1 {{cite news|last=Lyall|first=Sarah|title=Son and Heir? In Britain, Daughters Cry No Fair|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/world/europe/son-and-heir-in-britain-daughters-cry-no-fair.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|date=22 June 2013}} 6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-hares-take-on-the-heirs-in-parliament-where-royalty-led-the-aristocracy-may-follow-with-8891780.html|title=The hares take on the heirs in Parliament: Where royalty led, the|work=The Independent|access-date=2018-08-23|language=en-GB}} 7. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jan/11/downton-bill-women-rights-liza-campbell|title=The Downton bill is for all daughters|last=Campbell|first=Liza|date=2014-01-11|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-08-23}} 8. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/677073/inheritance-duke-duchess-Manners-Belvoir-castle-UK-aristocracy|title=Never mind his elder sisters... My boy will be duke|last=Roycroft-Davis|first=Chris|date=2016-06-05|work=Express.co.uk|access-date=2018-08-24|language=en}} 9. ^{{cite news|title=First-born girls should be able to inherit hereditary titles|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/10495383/First-born-girls-should-be-able-to-inherit-hereditary-titles.html|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=5 December 2013}} 10. ^1 {{cite news|last=Merrick|first=Jane|title=The hares take on the heirs in Parliament: Where royalty led, the aristocracy may follow, with succession rights for girls to be debated|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-hares-take-on-the-heirs-in-parliament-where-royalty-led-the-aristocracy-may-follow-with-succession-rights-for-girls-to-be-debated-8891780.html|newspaper=The Independent|date=20 October 2013|author2=Bell, Matthew}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/equalitytitles.html|title=Equality (Titles) Bill [HL] 2013-14|publisher=UK Parliament|accessdate=16 August 2014}} External links
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