After that peers can settle down to one of their favourite activities: detailed constitutional debate, in the committee stage of the Succession to the Crown Bill.

BBC: Week ahead

His Succession to the Crown Bill was given an unopposed first reading in the Commons on Tuesday but it stands little chance of becoming law because of a lack of parliamentary time.

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In December, a new law was published - the Succession to the Crown Bill - which means the couple's first child will become monarch, whether they are a boy or girl.

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Lord Strathclyde had been forced to give the assurance as peers discussed some of Parliament's more obscure powers following Conservative peer Lord Trefgarne's question on changing the rules for succession to the Crown.

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On Monday , the Commons meets at 2.30pm for work and pensions questions, and then (unless there's a ministerial statement or urgent question), MPs will finish their consideration of the Succession to the Crown Bill.

BBC: Week ahead

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.

BBC: Week ahead

Then peers have their first debate on the Succession to the Crown Bill - the measure to allow princesses to inherit the throne if they're older than their brother princes, and remove some of the restrictions on members of the royal family marrying Roman Catholics.

BBC: Week ahead

The Succession to the Crown Bill will also remove a requirement for descendants of George II to seek permission to marry from the monarch, dating back to 1772, replacing it with a requirement for the first six people in the succession to seek the sovereign's consent.

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