Whilst enjoying the coverage of the royal birth I began to
ponder the effort that had been gone into to change the act of succession and
how it is now a mute point.
Don’t get me wrong I am glad it’s been done and it leads the
way for equality in the future but just as anyone born after 1952 will only
ever have known a Queen the next generation will only ever know a King, all be
it possibly three different ones.
This is another position that is currently held by a woman
but that the successor will be a man and I had to wonder why in my life time,
when we are bombarded by the feminist call for women to have it all the Queen
has never be held as a feminist icon. She has after all got the top job in the
country. She is Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces and Head of the
Church of England, to name put two of her many positions. She has managed to
raise four children and still continue the day job and doesn’t look like
retiring any time soon. She earns more than her husband and has a better job.
Surely this is one woman that has made it to the top in a very male dominated
world. You only have to look at the photographs of other Heads of State during
the jubilee celebrations to see that there are not that many women in this type
of position throughout the world.
Whilst some may believe she got there by Divine
Intervention, in my opinion, she’s done a bloody good job.
So whilst we welcome the new arrival let’s not forget the
current incumbent and the fantastic job SHE has done.
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