Saturday, March 21, 2026

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

Aristocrat Charles Courtenay, 19th Earl of Devon, pictured outside his family seat of Powderham Castle in Devon, Britain. The Earl is one of the 86 remaining sitting hereditary peers in the UK parliaments

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.

(Image credit: Susannah Ireland for NPR)

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