Boris Johnson sees the success of The King's Speech as demonstrating popular support for the hereditary principle.

"What is wrong with the hereditary principle?"

The hereditary principle is a peculiar thing.

But this is not because she has suddenly decided to espouse the hereditary principle.

For people who rail against the monarchy, the House of Murdoch seems more than keen on the hereditary principle.

The hereditary principle of peerage has also seen the term applied to family-run breweries that have been inherited over the generations.

Thirdly, again helped by circumstances, he had to some extent ended the hereditary principle as applying to the emperorship.

"The tempering of the hereditary principle by democracy has produced a curious constitutional hybrid," it said in an editorial.

When did Labour decide the hereditary principle was the way they would choose leaders and candidates?

This is said to be the closest case that the Legislative Council ever came to the hereditary principle.