Let it never be said that England is still fussy and old-fashioned!

According to news reports from across the pond, Prime Minister David Cameron's government is working to change existing rules of inheritance of the British crown. As current law stands, if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have a daughter and then a son, the boy would inherit the throne despite being born second. Under Cameron's proposed new legislature, a firstborn daughter could claim the crown and be Queen.

Cameron has already gotten the legal process underway by writing to the governments of countries within the Commonwealth, where Queen Elizabeth is their monarch—the new rules would have to be unanimously ratified.

"We espouse gender equality in all other aspects of life, and it is an anomaly that in the rules relating to the highest public officer we continue to enshrine male superiority," Cameron wrote.

Cameron also proposes lifting the ban on anyone in the line of succession marrying a Catholic (seriously, Britain?), and suggests that only the first six people in line for the throne should need to get permission to marry from the reigning monarch.

This won't be the first time that William and Kate have been at the center of overturning outdated, royalty-related rules. During their engagement, there was some debate over whether the now-Duchess would have to undergo a medical examination to prove fertility, as William's mother Diana did (and that was in the '80s!) Citing the fact that it's 2011, for goodness' sake, Duchess Kate did not have any such obligation.

There has been a lot of discussion, especially here in the U.S. (where we don't have our own royals and have so much fun watching everyone else's) over just what monarchs, and the rules and regulations surrounding marriage and inheritance for those monarchs, stand for.

Some see William and Kate of Cambridge as the model of a healthy, long-term relationship (the scary amount of weight she lost before and just after her wedding not withstanding), while others see them as a waste of taxpayer money. However, the good thing about Duchess Kate is that she does not seem to be the sort of lady that gets pushed around.

As far as princesses go, I'd say that's a pretty good trait to teach all those little girls who still want to be a princess when they grow up.