If the Queen decided that she wanted Beatrice to succeed to one or other of her father's peerages she could simply re-invest him with the peerage with a remainder, in the absence of a son, to his daughters a la Mountbatten of Burma, Fife etc. Or she could invest him with a new peerage with the remainder to his daughters.
And, Johan, although I know that some people insist that each extant peerage would have to dealt with separately I can see no reason why. If the Queen assented to legislation that established that women have equal succession rights to men and that henceforth succession to all extant peerages will be gender blind that is what would happen.
Indeed, I wonder if she would need legislation. Perhaps she could could just announce it. She is the font of honours, after all.
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