Queen Victoria would not have been amused.

Could the donor-conceived daughter  of a lesbian queen end up on the British throne?

Carolyn Moynihan

When you mess with fundamental aspects of human biology and society you simply cannot predict all the consequences. However, the British may be better at this than other nations.

Here’s a good piece of lateral thinking on gay marriage that came up in a British House of Lords debate on the royal succession -- legislation designed to end preference for the eldest son and allow a daughter to be first in line for the throne.
What if, said Lord True, a Conservative peer who is not opposed to gay marriage,

“What happens if we have a lesbian queen in a same-sex marriage who conceives using an egg implanted with donor sperm? The law should be clear, but this is a question that has not been thought through in the Bill."

Already British law says that only an “heir to the body” can succeed to the throne.

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