Equality (Titles) Bill [HL]

Debate between Lord Lucas and Lord Jopling

Friday 6th December 2013 Lords Chamber

[Lord Lucas]

My Lords, I, too, support my noble friend’s amendment. It would have been very useful to the Lord Bengwill of his day—in 1745 he was on the wrong side, or perhaps the right side, and his title was extinguished for a while before being reignited in Victorian times—if he had been able to save a few frozen Stuart embryos, which the society for the restoration of the Stuarts could pop out into this world at regular intervals as proven children of that line. It might cause some confusion. Perhaps things are not quite as simple, particularly for succession to privileges and powers, as they are in ordinary human reproduction, so we ought to take a little care.

[Lord Jopling]

My Lords, in view of the support that the amendment has received, I hope that it will not be opposed; no one has spoken against it.