In the uk is it always either a king or a queen on the throne or can you get a king and a queen?

Question

sorry for my ignorance, just that to my knowledge there has either just been a king or a queen and not both at once, hope this makes sense. x

Answer 1

If you have a King his wife becomes Queen.

With the current Queen, if she had made her husband King he would have had precedence over her, so she didn't.... otherwise she would have had to appoint herself an Ace!

Answer 2

If it is a male on the throne then he is king and his wife is queen but if it is a female on the throne then she is queen but her husband is not king

Answer 3

its either or, meaning either a queen or a king. Not sure why not both as the queen herself is married. Maybe as there are too many queens over here as i is!!! if you get what i mean

Answer 4

Yes you can get both William and Mary

Answer 5

You mean like a co-rule type of situation? It only happened once throughout the entire English/British history, the phrase William and Mary usually refers to the joint sovereignty over the Kingdom of England, as well as the Kingdom of Scotland, of King William III and his wife Queen Mary II, a daughter of James II. Their joint reign began in February, 1689, when they were called to the throne by Parliament, replacing James II, who was "deemed to have fled" the country in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. After Mary died in 1694, William of Orange ruled alone until his death in 1702. Their rule was the only period in British history in which "joint sovereigns" with equal powers were allowed to reign; usually, the spouse of the monarch has no power and is simply a consort.

Throughout the English/British history, it was always ruled by one monarch on the throne, either a King or Queen Regent. Under the common law, the crown was inherited by its eldest born son and passed down through the line of succession, as the list gets bigger and longer as more descendants are added through time. Co-rules usually occurs when a monarch is left with only a daughter to inherit the crown, and sometimes in order to form alliance with another country, he would marry her to another King/Prince and agree to have him as a "co-ruler" along with his own daughter.

Answer 6

there can be both king and queen, but i heard that in the old days unless a princess makes her husband prince consort he would take her spot of leadership if she became a queen.At less that is how it is in my country. but i think the UK might be different. search Prince Consort and please let us Know.

Answer 7

It is usually the eldest son who inherits the throne, he becomes king and his wife is the queen. If there is not a male to inherit the throne, then the oldest daughter inherits the throne. She becomes the queen, however her husband is not considered to be the king because this would give him a higher status.

Answer 8

When a King is on the throne then his wife is Queen.  The Queen on the other hand has a Consort; which is Prince Philip.

Answer 9

If we have a Queen, like now, her husband is known as a Prince. However, if we had a King his wife would be known as a Queen. Odd, but true. So the Queens mother was a queen when her husband was King, and continued to be until her death, she wasn't the Queen, just a Queen. As to William and Mary, neither of them were technically entitled to the throne, Mary's father was actually King, but he was terrible and was forcibly removed from the throne. William was a Dutch King who was installed as King to try and  gloss over the fact that the couple had no right to be there.

Answer 10

Yes there can be a king and queen  you may remember the queen mother our queens mother well she was queen to george sixth who died just after the second world war

Answer 11

well say for example there is a king on the throne and he marrys a woman she can become queen.  however if a queen decided to marry a man they become a prince.  hope this helps

Answer 12

Heirs to the throne: the first born male is always heir to the throne, and would be King, his wife would be Queen.

However if their is no male in line to the throne, the female becomes Queen and her husband becomes Consort.

Queen Elizabeth's children in age are Charles, Anne, Andrew & Edward. Charles born heir to the throne, Andrew was 2nd in line, should Charles have died, the heir would have been Andrew. As Charles married & had children the succesion passes to his children - William now being 2nd in line to the throne. So upon the death of Elizabeth, Charles becomes King and his wife Queen. Should Charles die or abdicate William would become King and his wife Queen, if William was not maried at the time a female member of the royal family could act as consort until such time as he married.

Rightly or wrongly males always take precidence over females in sucesion to the throne.

Answer 13

If a King is the reigning monarch then his wife is known as the Queen, however if the reigning monarch is a Queen then her husband is just Prince- he doesn't have the title of King.

Answer 14

While William of Orange and Mary Stewart were co-sovereigns and shared the throne, it was a once off and required a revolution to achieve it.   Not only were they married, they were cousins and he was high in the line of succession himself.

Now, the laws of succession are very clear;  one can have only a single monarch.   If it is a male he is king and his wife is called a queen but will not reign and will not be a monarch.

Answer 15

i know what you're trying to ask i think

although there is both a queen and a king (technically).........there is always only 1 ruling monarch (which right now is Queen Elizabeth).

the whole commotion over Prince Charles and Camilla marrying is that most people (i believe it was a shockingly 92%) do not want Camilla to be Queen. most had no objections to the actual marriage on its own, but felt that the crown should bypass Charles to William because they felt so strongly about Camilla

Answer 16

you can have both, but not getting a king.queen one is smarter

Answer 17

yes if a lady married a king she could take the title of queen

Answer 18

If its a king his wife is known as the queen. If its a Queen her husband can't be a King as a King is higher rank than a Queen. So her husband is a Prince.

Answer 19

There is only one royal line.  For that to happen they would have to be brother and sister.

Answer 20

if William is crowned king his wife (if he has one) would be queen. If they only have daughters their eldest daughter will become queen when William dies - his wife will not be queen anymore but now called the queen mother

Answer 21

The King's wife has the title of Queen Consort, whereas a woman who inherits the throne in her own right is a Queen Regnant.  The only time I am aware of when the king and queen were considered joint rulers was when William and Mary were King and Queen in the late seventeenth century.  I believe that was because William refused to be considered lower than his wife.

That has always been the problem with the husbands of Queens Regnant, what to call them.  Queen Victoria wanted Prince Albert to be given the title of King, but eventually they decided to call him the Prince Consort.

Answer 22

There has only been one Joint monarchy in British history and that was William III and Mary II who were married. Mary II was the eldest protestant daughter of the previous King James II and VII. William III was her husband and cousin, he ruled alone after she died.

If we have a King, his wife is known as HM The Queen, but she is not a Queen regnant but a Queen consort.

Answer 23

No, it's one or the other....only one Monarch at a time.,,

Answer 24

The constitutional preference in England (now United Kingdom) is for one monarch; king or queen.  However, there has been one instance when both parties in a royal marriage have been anointed as monarchs at the same time.  That was the case of William and Mary, both crowned at one ceremony in February 1689.  Mary had her own right of succession as daughter of James II and the Salic Law did not operate in England.  Her father was "deemed to have fled" in 1688.  When Mary died in 1694, William reigned as King by himself until he died in 1702.  In some ways, this created an awkward precedent for the succession, since his claim to the throne was based substantially on being married to Mary.  When she died, what then was his claim?

Their rule was the only period in British history in which "joint sovereigns" with equal powers were allowed to reign.  

Usually, the spouse of the monarch has no power and is simply a consort. The wife of a crowned King is called Queen but it is an honorary title; she has not been anointed in Coronation.  The husband of a crowned Queen is called Prince Consort. This has been true for all other monarchs and is true today.  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh etc was not anointed at a coronation and is the Queen's consort.  

Hope helpful.