But many see the beginning of a bid for succession that has long been expected, despite Gamal Mubarak's flagging popularity and a five-year-old campaign against hereditary succession that has resonated widely.

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Her sophisticated soldier husband, the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick, taunted her with a succession of mistresses, and she took disconsolately to religion, and to trumpeting the superiority of her native land.

NPR: Excerpt: Princesses

The Commons meets at 2.30pm on Monday for Home Office questions, after which the Conservative Mary Macleod proposes to follow-up the Succession to the Crown Bill by removing male preference in the inheritance of hereditary peerages and estates.

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