Ditch those inheritance inequalities, says Baronet

BARONET Sir Edward Nall of Hoveringham and his wife are backing the campaign for a law so that women can inherit family titles as well as men.

Their only child, 16-year-old Georgina, is not able to take her father’s baronetcy when he dies, leaving it to pass to her uncle.

‘Georgie wants to inherit and is taught all about gender equality at school and thinks it’s weird she is not allowed,’ her mother, Lady Nall, tells me. ‘Reform of this outdated law is shockingly overdue.

‘Gender inequality is illegal. However, male primogeniture still exists for the peerage and baronetage. It is disgraceful. Even in the Royal Family a child, regardless of gender, can accede to the throne.’

Sir Edward and Lady Nall, a former nurse, live in a ten-bedroom home with 110 acres of land near Nottingham. But, she argues, they are not posh.

‘We don’t even have central heating or double glazing,’ she says of their home, Hoveringham Hall, which has been in her husband’s family since 1858.