If a King and Queen gets married, and the king dies..the queen takes over right?.......?

Question

What happens if the King is g*y and he marries a Man and then dies??

Answer 1

That is incorrect--the Queen is only the consort--she cannot rule. The oldest child of the King will rule. If the child is very young, then the Queen can be the Regent (rule in his minority)--this has happened on occasion. If there are no children, then the sibling closest in age to the King gets the throne.

Answer 2

if a Princess ascended to be crowned Queen, her husband would never be given the title of king, as a king out ranks a queen,

that is why the British queen's husband's title is HRH the Duke of Edinburgh.

only a mail air to the crown would be called king once he became king anyone  who married there way to the crown would have to have a lesser title that the sovereign the queen

Answer 3

next in line for the throne takes over, and it's rarely the queen.

Usually, it is the firstborn son of the King.

If the King dies without issue (for whatever reason),  too young, unmarried, unable to conceive, the line goes back to his younger brother.  If there are no surviving younger brothers, a sister (oldest surviving).  If there are no siblings, they start going to cousins...

Check into the succession of monarchs after the death of Henry VIII through the accession of Victoria.

Answer 4

in England the king is the head of the Church so wouldnt be able to marry a man

Answer 5

The queen becomes a king who's taken over from the king that was a queen.  Logical really.

Answer 6

Wrong the Heir or Heiress takes the throne. So if Charles was king and he died then wills would be king as he is heir to the throne.

Answer 7

Wrong.  The Queen consort never takes over.  The nearest relative would, with the Consort acting as Regent if the kids are too young. Many Kings have been g*y, but they also have a tame woman along to produce kids.

Answer 8

It depends on the situation, usually there will be an heir apparent or regent that will take the throne on the death of the King.  It would be unusual if this was the queen, because they are usually not a royal line themselves.

Because most Kings are also the leaders of their countries religion, and most religions are against homosexual marriage, that situation could never arise.  While it is suspected that some kings did have homosexual tendencies, these were never made openly public.  The most famous in British history, was James I lover the Duke of Buckingham, who was also his trusted adviser towards the end of his life.

Answer 9

It depends on the country you are talking about.

Lines of succession are usually established by tradition and a queen who ascended a throne because she married into a royal family will usually be "retired" as a queen mother and her offspring by the king ascend the throne.

Answer 10

if he married a man then he would not take over if he married a woman she would not take over it would be handed down to one of their children and if they did not have any a brother or sister

Answer 11

In the UK - wrong! The heir/heiress takes over. I'm not sure of all other monarchies. The only place where this didn't happen is with Willaim III and Mary II both of whom were joint monarchs and after Mary's death, William ruled alone.

The only monarchy in the world that has fully legalised g*y marriage is the Netherlands (The UK only has civil partnerships which is more to do with inheritance and tax rights and is not marriage). The question would probably not be answered until it came up.

Answer 12

No, the person who marries them is just a consort. They get called the king/queen mother.

Answer 13

well the queen takes over in the first question....but if the king was g*y his people will NEVER let him marry other guy and is forced to marry a woman

Answer 14

if the king was g*y he would never be allowed to marry a man..

royal homersexuality is very much frowned on and is never ever revealed

if there was a king and queen then the person who was born into the royal circle would be the one appointed to the thrown and if one of the couple were to die (the king or queen) then the title wouldnt be given to the one who is alive, instead it would be passed onto the next in line for the thrown, which is normally the 1st born of their children.

in the UK we have a queen (who was born in the royal circle) she is married to a man who is a royal German but he is not nor ever will be called king (i forget his title at the mo)

but when the queen gives up her title or dies her husband wont be king. instead the title will be passed on to the person next in line ..which will be her son, Prince Charles and then next in line after is Prince Charles 1st born, Price William

Answer 15

Z, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is in line for the throne... He is a descendant of the Electress Sophia of Hanover, from whom all British dynasts descend. And it's not the throne of England, either.

The only time a queen would take over from her husband, the King, dying would be one of the following:

- She was proclaimed queen in her own right in the absence on an heir or as the result of an uprising

- She was the heiress of her husband... For instance, imagine if Prince William of Wales is king and he marries his cousin Princess Beatrice of York and they were childless. William's brother Prince Henry dies childless and his uncle the Duke of York (Beatrice's father, next in line) dies without sons. If King William dies, Queen Beatrice is both queen regnant and queen dowager, the first meaning queen in her own right and the second meaning queen. The only time this can happen is in monarchies allowing female succession and where people close in line marry without having children.

- Third case is where the queen is regent for a minor child who becomes king or queen, like Maria Christina of Austria, whose son Alphonse XIII was born after his father died and who was born king.

If a king is g*y he probably will not marry a man given most royal families have rules governing who a royal can or cannot marry.

Answer 16

she wouldn't have been a queen before they got married - would she?

Answer 17

It would never go to the spouse, it goes to an offspring, a sibbling or the nearest BLOOD relative.

Answer 18

If the King was g*y.. that would make him a 'Queen' right? ;-)

Answer 19

no their son does or if no boys the daughter if our queen dies prince charles will be come king on his death it will be william

Answer 20

The queen does not take over, the heir to the throne does

And as for a g*y king- your kidding surely

Answer 21

The rules of succession don't work like that. If, for instance, HRH Queen Elizabeth II were to die, HRH Prince Philip would not "become" king of England because he is not in line to the throne. HRH Prince Charles would immediately assume the throne as King Charles III (though I did hear once that he is considering taking as his regnant name King George VII - George being one of his given names).

Anyway; the role of a monarch's consort is only to make sure that the line continues, thus Prince Philip's role was only to father the next monarch.

It's the same situation with your hypothetical g*y king. Since the role of a consort is to perpetuate the line, and any pre-existing offspring from previous relationships wouldn't be in line, then the death of a childless g*y king would mean the line would end and the search for the next, nearest relative would begin.

Yours is an interesting question because it's been asked a few times and not just on Yahoo! Answers.

In short, the reigning monarch remains the reigning monarch. The monarch's consort plays no role beyond producing the next generation and the death of the monarch results in the heir assuming the throne.

Answer 22

The throne is always passed onto the heir/heiress apparent or presumptive, which is usually their eldest born son or daughter. The spouse of a monarch receives a courtesy title of Queen Consort or Prince Consort, however, they do not have any right to claim the throne. Unless the spouse is also a member of the royal family and has a place in the line of succession, however, it is extremely unlikely the throne will be passed onto the spouse, at least without force.

In general, however, the consorts of monarchs have no power per se, even when their position is constitutionally or statutorily recognized. However, often the queen consort of a deceased king (the queen dowager or queen mother) has served as regent while her child, the successor to the throne, was still a minor.

Historically, there were a few English Kings who were known to be "bisexuals" and were open about their "affairs with male lovers. However, due to immense pressure from their privy council members to produce "royal male heirs", the Kings must marry a female solely for that purpose. Nowadays, "same-s*x marriages" are still frowned upon, especially within royal families. Royal marriages must be blessed and consented by the monarch, therefore, without such blessings, the royal member may be removed from the line of succession, or disowned by the royal family like the g*y Prince from India.