According to what are the husbands of the queens called the king, and vice versa?

Question

e.g. current queen of England is Elizabeth but her husband Phillip holds the prince title, not the king.

Answer 1

It varies with the country.  In Britain and most of Europe, the reigning sovereign is a king or a queen; kings aren't married to queens because there's only one sovereign.  

Part of this has to do with the church in question, because most of the stuff about royalty comes out of church law.  A sovereign is anointed by the church and is, in fact, the church's representative on Earth.  Yep: it's the old king = God deal.  And there's only one of those.  You can have princes and earls and princesses by the dozen, because those are created by the sovereign, but the sovereign himself or herself is created by God.  

It's a really rotten system that stopped working a long time ago, but everyone seems to love it.

Answer 2

because if he becomes king, he would run the country in the old time, and queen didn't want it to happen, therefore when a man marrys the queen, he becomes prince instead.

Answer 3

The wife of a king has been called a queen for centuries, but somehow, in  England and other European countries at least, the husband of a reigning queen is not a "king consort."  I think there's a little reverse sexism involved.  Since a husband is traditionally head of the household, perhaps the country felt that the only way to prevent a reigning queen's husband from taking over and ruling on her behalf was to deny him a rank equal to hers.  However, this practice extends down through other titled ranks as well.  The wife of a peer shares his rank, and the wife of a knight is "Lady [last name]"--for example, during her marriage to Paul McCartney, Heather Mills could have been addressed as "Lady McCartney."  The husband of a dame (a woman who has been knighted), however, remains Mr.  I suspect that many men prefer it this way, anyway.  Although it's still not uncommon for a woman to like being known primaritly as her husband's wife, it's a rare man who likes being known primarily as his wife's husband.

I'm not sure that this answers your question.  But whether it's by law or by tradition, the wife of a king is a queen, but the husband of a queen in her own right is not a king--unless he has his own separate kingdom.

Answer 4

In the UK,the title for the spouse of a reigning Queen is Prince Consort. The title of "king" implies the reigning monarch and this won't

do since the reigining monarch is a Queen.

PHILIP is a prince of royal blood himself and is third cousin to his wife. Philip is of the Danish Royal House of Schlessweig-Holstein-

Sonderburg-Glucksburg, the same

family as Queen Alexandra,wife of Edward VII.

His family branch was asked to take on the Greek throne;that it how a non-Greek family came to that monarchy.

Philip became a naturalised British citizen and took on one of the English family names he could use -Mountbatten,formerly Battenberg.Lord Louis Mountbatten was his uncle and a scion of the royal family-Battenberg branch.

Answer 5

Royal consort.

That way they are still held in high regard, without any of the powers thereof.

Answer 6

There is no Queen of England. The last one was Anne. Elizabeth is Queen of the United Kingdom.

The simple answer is traditionally, a wife takes the rank of her husband and not the other way around, although that isn't to say that there haven't been kings consort. England, Scotland, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, etc, all had them at one point or another.

A queen regnant (a queen in her own right) ALWAYS outranks a king consort ( a king by marriage), especially one who is only such because he is her husband.