Whats the highest non-royal title a woman can have?

Question

And how would you get a title?

Answer 1

duchess, arch-duchess, or marchioness (marquise).  As to actual order of precedence, it depends on where in Europe you are.

If you're not born to it, then you usually marry a duke, arch-duke, or marquis (marquess)

Answer 2

a wife.

or a priestess.

Answer 3

my ho

Answer 4

Dame.

Answer 5

"She who must be obeyed!"

Answer 6

The ranks of the English peerage are from highest to lowest:

Duke/Duchess

Marquess/Marchioness

Earl/Countess

Viscount/Viscountess

Baron/Baroness

Therefore, the highest non-royal title a woman can have is "Duchess." While most newer English peerages descend only in male line, many of the older ones (particularly older baronies) can descend through females. Under English inheritance law all daughters are co-heirs, so many older English peerage titles have fallen into abeyance between various female co-heirs.

Unless you have inherited the title "Duchess" as co-heirs from your family, you would only receive such a title if you married a Duke, as a courtesy title. A courtesy title is a form of address in systems of nobility used by children, wives and other close relatives of a peer. These styles may mislead those unacquainted with the system into thinking that they have substantive titles.

A substantive title (or substantive peerage) is a title of nobility or royalty held by someone (normally by one person alone), which they gained through either grant or inheritance, as opposed to one given or loaned to them either as a courtesy title, or gained through marriage.

Answer 7

The highest non-royal title really depends on where you are. More times than not it would be Princess, but that depends on where from.  You can either marry and receive the title by courtesy, or you can be givin it in your own right by a monarch or the current head of an imperial or royal family(deposed or in power).  Just a note though, if you wanted to be titled and royal there is still a chance at it.  The pope can actually make you royal.

Answer 8

Duchess, although that is just the wife of a duke. The highest current title a woman can have (and currently does have) in her own right is Countess (female equivalent of Earl) e.g 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma is the oldest child of Earl Mountbatten and holds the title in her own right as Earl Mountbatten had no sons, on her death it will pass to her oldest son Norton Louis Philip Knatchbull, who will become the 3rd Earl.