She will be the first UK woman allowed to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. Britain’s first woman soldier to serve on the frontline is transgender. Chloe Allen, who joined the service in 2012, serves as a member of 1st Battalion, the Scots Guards. She said she is proud ‘to be able to make history’.
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The Queen’s cousin has become the first member of the British Royal Family to come out as gay. Lord Ivar Mountbatten has revealed that he is now dating a man after a lifelong struggle with his sexuality. Mountbatten is the Queen’s cousin, the great great great grandson of Queen Victoria and the great-nephew of Earl
Despite same-sex marriage remaining banned in Australia, Sydney’s Lord Mayor has performed a same-sex wedding ceremony inside the British consulate. Australia’s anti-gay marriage former PM Tony Abbott plotted to stall same-sex marriage earlier this year when it was set to come to a vote, instead proposing a plebiscite (public vote) to be held in 2017. Though Mr Abbott