End of an heir-a: The U.K. abolishes aristocrats' right to inherit Parliament seats

End of an heir-a: The U.K. abolishes aristocrats' right to inherit Parliament seats

The British Parliament still has 92 unelected lawmakers who inherit seats by bloodline. They're all older white men. A new law now phases them out, for the first time in nearly 1,000 years.

POWDERHAM CASTLE, Devon, England In his 20s, Charles Courtenay left the drizzly English countryside where he grew up, and moved to California. He met his first wife in a bar in Las Vegas, and didn't… [+8134 chars]
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