Someone should suggest to Parliament or the next monarch of England that they should fix that. Laws are changeable. By contrast, in ancient Babylon, an adopted child was the same, legally and for inheritance purposes, as a biological child. (Except that adoptions could be revoked if the adoptee violated the terms of their adoption--e.g, the case of a slave freed and adopted as heir on the condition that they care for the adoptive parent in his old age, which responsibility the adopted slave blew off. As did the old man's biological children. I wonder if the old man was one of those toxic parents...).