Title of the Royal family? – 2nd ed.?

Question

Previously, I did ask about how the Royal family members get their titles. Thanks for the answers. I’m still curious about the Royal family since I’m not a British myself.

I found out that the children of Princess Anne (those are Peter Phillips and Zara Phillips) do not get Royal title like Prince or Princess. Why is that? In the other hand, the daughters of Prince Andrew get the Princess title (Beatrice & Eugenie).

Serious answer only please. Thanks again :)

Answer 1

I'm not 100% sure on this but I think it's due to the fact that only children of male heirs are given royal titles as the title is handed down from the father.This excludes the monarch as wether the monarch is a king or a queen all their children automatically recieve a royal title.

Answer 2

Princess Anne stated that she did not want her children to have titles. It was hers and the Queens choice.

Answer 3

The children of a Prince receive titles, while the children of a Princess do not.

Answer 4

It was purely the choice of HRH Princess Anne and her then Husband Capt. Mark Phillips, who was himself a commoner, that their children would not have Royal titles...that is all. Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, did not make that choice.

Answer 5

It was Princess Anne and her Husband who choose not to have their children given royal titles to allow them to lead relatively normal lives.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/roy...

Answer 6

It is to do with where the individual stands in line to the throne. Princess Anne, having been displaced by her brothers and is now 9th in line for the throne, is no longer in direct line to the throne, so her offspring, therefore, will not carry the title of 'Prince' or 'Princess'. This is also because their father, Capt Mark Phillips, has no royal connection or title himself.  The children of the queen and her grandchildren, which do stand in direct line to the throne, all carry this title. Consider it as a way of distinguishing who is in direct line and who isn't.

Princess Anne's title of 'Princess Royal' was conferred on her by the Queen in 1987 and she only the seventh holder of this creation.

Answer 7

The daughters of a Prince are different from the daughters of a Princess

Answer 8

It all comes down to the fact that children take their title from their father. So, if the father doesn't have a title, neither do the children, even if their mother is a princess and has a place in the succession to the throne. Of course, they are still the Queen's grandchildren, and have a place in the succession, even if it is far down in the line.

Princess Anne didn't want her husband to be titled for that reason. Princess Margaret's husband was given a title Lord Snowdon, so her children are titled. The children of Prince Andrew and Prince Edward are titled because they take thier titles from their father.

Answer 9

Hi. The Princess Royals children were not given titles as Princess Anne didnt want them,it was her choice. Normally Peter Philips would have been a Prince and Zara Philips would have been a Princess.

Answer 10

Chris m - Princess Anne is a child of the Queen and, as such, is in direct line to the throne (albeit now some way down the list).

She simply declined the right to use titles for her children.

Answer 11

When Princess Anne go married to Captain Mark Phillips the Queen offered an Earldom to Captain Mark Phillips. But Princess Anne didn't want any title for her children. Someone above me mention that if Anne had accepted titles that Anne children would have been Prince and Princess that is wrong. Remember when the Queen sister Princess Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones. He was created Earl of Snowdon by his sister in law the Queen. Princess Margaret children have the title David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones

Answer 12

Chris M is correct, titles are only given such as prince etc. if they are in theory in line to the throne.

Answer 13

This goes back to the Act of Settlement of 1917. King George V realised that his dynasty was multiplying beyond reason and that future generations would be astronomical in numbers. Therefore he enacted that henceforth only children of the sons of monarchs would be HRH. Children of daughters of monarchs would take their father's name and derive any title from him. Thus, children of the Queen's sons are HRH, but Anne's children are Mr & Miss Philips.

Charles's children are HRH as will be their children, but should Harry have daughters, their children will be Mr or Miss.

Answer 14

The reason Princess Anne's children did not get titles (although they were entitled to them) was because Anne wanted her children to have a normal childhood and not have to suffer the trappings of royalty.

Answer 15

It's the fact that the Princess Royal is a woman, titles can normally only pass down the Male line, the children of Royal dukes (have the title HRH in addition to their dukedom) are Princes and Princesses, the children of Princesses are untitled unless the Queen confers a title upon them or they are already titled e.g. Earl Snowdon was created an Earl by the Queen upon his marriage to Princess Margaret.

It was reported that Princess Anne refused a title for Captain Mark Philips upon their marriage.

Although The Earl Of Wessex's daughter is titled Lady Louise, technically she is a Princess as a grandaughter of the Monarch through the male line.