40. Ladies First – Queen Latifah (1989)

 

The ladies will kick it, the rhyme that is wicked
Those that don't know how to be pros get evicted
A woman can bear you, break you, take you
Now it's time to rhyme, can you relate to
A sister dope enough to make you holler and scream

 

So, we got a not so shiny and new king two years back.

That’s right, Charlie finally graduated from his seventy-four-year apprenticeship and got his hands on the crown.

Through all the ceremony and media attention, did anyone think of Princess Anne? I mean, the eventual Queen Lizzy got lucky not having an older brother and then having a son straight up. If Anne had of been just two years older, she would have had to step aside so her kid brother could take the throne.

Thirty-four years later and Princess Di spared everyone the embarrassment of having a daughter that would have to step aside for a kid brother – and I’m pretty sure Di would have to keep at it until a son was born.

It wasn’t until Princess Kate was pregnant thirty-one years after Will’s birth that the British parliament finally took a look at themselves and thought ‘Hey a legislated patriarchy is a bit archaic’.

So, from Charlie’s birth in 1948 to Georgie’s birth in 2013 no one thought that, just maybe, a male line of succession was a tad dated and sexist? All while having ‘Oh my God! A woman!’ as the head of state for over sixty of those sixty-five years?

Quick refresher. The British parliament decided to get with the twenty-first century and rushed through a legislation amendment that simply said that the first born was to be the heir to the throne, regardless of gonadal placement.

Good job British parliament.

Then Kate gave the world a son anyhow. At least this spared us the media commentary on if a daughter should, eventually, ascend the thrown or not.

While we’re on the subject of gonad placement, the role of a monarch is, these days, largely – if not exclusively – symbolic, ceremonial and administrative, so what advantage do testicles provide in undertaking these duties?

Give it time, but maybe Georgie will eventually give the world a daughter that will be in direct succession to the crumbling British Empire.

 

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