Dutch PM: Crown Prince can marry same-sex and inherit the throne

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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte wrote to parliament on October 12 that the crown prince can marry a person of any gender without giving up his right to the throne.

Crown Prince takes adult prime minister's stance

Crown Princess Catharina-Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria will turn 18 in December, and there is a lot of talk about the succession to the throne, so a book was published this summer called "Emalia-Official Visits" (Netherlands). Text: Amalia – De Plicht Roept) on this topic. The book mentioned that even though the Netherlands passed the same-sex marriage law as early as 2001, the old law still stipulated that same-sex couples could not obtain royal power. To this end, Rutte's party asked him to clarify the government's position. Rutte, a long-time supporter of gender/gender minority rights, wrote to Congress to clear up his doubts, saying that times have changed a lot compared to 20 years ago. "The cabinet does not have to abdicate if the crown or the heir to the throne wants to marry a same-sex partner," he wrote, adding that the right applies to all heirs to the crown, not just Princess Emalia, though she has not made it public. give an opinion. Little is known about her private life, and there is no sign of the royal family planning a wedding.

Succession execution details still complicated

Although the government is open, members of the royal family still need parliamentary approval to marry. In the past, some members of the royal family were not approved, and some were forced to give up their right to inherit the throne because they were not expected to be approved. Rutte said the implementation details of the succession to the throne were still "extremely complex", such as the constitution which stipulates that the throne can only be "inherited by lawful descendants", that children born by adoption and sperm donation are excluded, and whether children of same-sex couples can inherit The throne is in doubt, but Rutte still told Dutch TV that everything "goes straight to the bridge".

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European royals are becoming more open to sex/gender niche

The Dutch government’s statement this time is completely different from the global royal family’s attitude towards same-sex marriage. The royal families of many countries either avoid talking about it or directly deny the inheritance rights of same-sex couples. However, there are also a few positive examples in Europe: in 2008, the Spanish Toledo woman The Duke (Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo y Maura) married his long-term partner and secretary Liliana Maria Dahlmann on the sickbed, and died 11 hours later. The family fund is managed by Dahlmann to this day; in 2016, the Queen's cousin Meng Lord Ivar Mountbatten married his partner James Coyle, the first same-sex wedding in the British royal family. The following year, Prince William also said that if the little prince was gay, he would "full support". / Don't be more tolerant of the niche.

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