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Had Elizabeth Windsor had a brother - even a younger brother - she would not have become Queen Elizabeth II on the death of her father, George VI, in 1952. But because her only sibling was a younger sister, the ancient tradition of male primogeniture didn’t prevent her accession as monarch. Now, nearly 60 years later, the 16 nations that recognize Queen Elizabeth as their head of state have rightly agreed to scrap the old rule.
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