Will Catherine be Queen?

[JohntheBiker]

As RogerWS76 said above, the reigning Queen takes the title of Queen and her husband is known as Prince... or referred to as the Queen's Consort.
Traditionally a reigning King's wife would take the title of Queen. It has been suggested that Camilla, Duchess of Rothesay might not take the title Queen when her husband becomes King because both of them have previously been married and divorced, and that she would be regarded as the King's Consort.
Whether this would set a precedent for the next generation remains to be seen. Personally I would have thought not and that Kate would take the title of Queen.

Interestingly, the Duke of Edinburgh did not automatically become a prince (of the UK) when Elizabeth was crowned. It was almost six years later that the Queen gave him the tiltle. Before that he was styled as His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh.

[McClef]

Interestingly, the Duke of Edinburgh did not automatically become a prince (of the UK) when Elizabeth was crowned. It was almost six years later that the Queen gave him the tiltle. Before that he was styled as His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh.

Equally interesting is that an heir presumptive can never be called Princess of Wales. The Queen had no other title than HRH Princess Elizabeth until she married whereupon she took her husband's title and became HRH Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh until her accession.

[Drac]

Amy was asking wasn't Mary the Princess of Wales before Edward was born?

Jim

[McClef]

If you mean Mary of Teck, later Queen Mary, Edward's mother then yes.

However she was married to George V who was Prince of Wales from 1901-10 as his consort, she was not Princess of Wales in her own right. What I was tyring to say was that even when it was likely that a female would inherit the throne, that female does not become Princess of Wales in her own right. The title Prince of Wales is always given to the eldest son of the reigning Monarch, never to a daughter.

This could be interesting in the future, however, if a male is born to say William and Kate but is younger than an elder female of theirs. His sister would now precede him in the line of succession but would still not, as far as I am aware, be able to deny him that title.

[Drac]

Actually I think she meant Mary Tudor.

Jim

[McClef]

Mary Tudor was never Princess of Wales.

She is a classic example of how male preference primogeniture worked, however. She was the eldest legitimate child of Henry VIII who wanted a son so he kept on trying with different wives until he got one, Edward, by his third wife, having produced another daughter, Elizabeth, by his second wife. It was Edward who was Prince of Wales and first in line, not his elder sisters who would have been displaced had he lived to marry and have children of his own.

[Pleater]

Wasn't Prince Philip originally a Prince of Greece?

I am almost certain that he had to give up his place in the Greek succession before marrying the then Princess Elizabeth, only becoming a Prince again, this time of Britain, when she was Queen and made him so some years after her accession.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: