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while the vast majority of hereditary noble titles granted by British sovereigns are not inheritable by daughters.

Gender preference

Often a hereditary title is inherited only by the legitimate, eldest son of the original grantee or that son's male heir according to masculine primogeniture. In some countries and some families, titles descended to all children of the grantee equally, as well as to all of that grantee's remoter descendants, male and female.

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