That every magazine and tabloid calls kate and camilla the "future queens", NEITHER can be queen any more than the queens current husband is king. If there is any way to change that I'm sure william will because he loves her so very much but charles sure won't. The magazines should get their facts straight about how royalty really works, it's not occured to anyone hey phillip is married to the queen and he's not king?
shareGotcha. My dad's a Pom (I'm an Aussie) and I asked him about it yesterday after I'd seen "The King's Speech". I thought it was fascinating because growing up, fantasy-romance stories I'd read always alluded to marrying into royalty, but as my dad explained it, you can only inherit the throne/tiara. So Kate will never be "Queen", but if she births a girl first, that girl should some day be queen.
As for Phillip, well, out of sight... out of mind :-)
Unless she gives birth to a boy after having a girl (or girls) and then the boy will jump ahead of his sisters in the line of succession.
However, if that were to happen, I wouldn't be surprised if Kate and William try to change the rules of succession for modern times. Especially since (arguably) England's greatest ruler was a woman - Elizabeth I.
And the magazines are referring to their assumed future titles rather than their future roles.
If I'm not mistaken, they will officially be "queen consort" (king's consort) as opposed to "queen regnant" (reigning queen).
"Queen consort" can be a mouthful. It's shortened to "queen". It's not unusual for the King's wife to take the title of "Queen". Though not queens by birth but by marriage, they are still referred to as "Queen X".
Elizabeth II's mother was "Queen Mother" and it wasn't because she was mother of the queen. Had Elizbeth been a boy, she would have still been "Queen Mother" as the widow of the former king, or his "queen consort". (So Elizabeth II's mother was both "Queen Mother" and "The Queen's Mother).
As for the husband of a queen not being "king" or "king consort", my guess it has to do with the rank inherent in the title. The spouse of the queen is usually "prince consort". "Prince" is a lower rank than "queen". If the spouse were "king", the person of higher rank isn't immediately apparent.
“If they let Jack do it his way the show would be just 12” – snorgtees.com
Yeah, but they'll still be called "Queen" except probably in formal writing, so there's no use in getting annoyed by it. And because making Kate Queen regnant instead of Queen consort would actually change the line of succession, I'm pretty sure that would require an act of Parliament, if it's even possible (bottom line is, no, William can't do it himself).
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