Why is Phillip only a Prince and not a King (since he's married to the Queen)...?

Question

and if the Queen died tomorrow, who would be in charge?

Answer 1

I am an American and I know the answer.  Prince Phillip is styled Prince because he had to give up his own throne (family was the monarchs of Greece).  It's as simple as that.

Answer 2

Elizabeth was the heir to the throne, she is a 'pureblodd' per say and she married someone who wasnt. Their first born would take the monarchy because he or she is the child of the purebread

Answer 3

He's an immigrant who is not on direct line of accession to the throne.

If the queen dies Charles gets the job, it is not put out to tender.

Nobody else gets a chance at the top job.

Answer 4

Elizabeth is the monarch and although Lord Mountbatten pushed for a dynastic name change that didn't happen: Philip, in order to marry Elizebeth, had to renounce his Greek title of prince and was created a Prince of the United Kingdom and Duke of Edinburgh. He COULD have been entitled Prince Consort, as Prince Albert was when Victoria became Queen...but under the British Constitution, which is unwritten but consitute the combined Acts of

Parliament, the only time a male who married an heir became King ( and not King Consort that never has existed) was in the Glorious Revolution of 1788 when James II got the boot and the Stuarts were out...and Mary was brought over from the Netherlands to be Queen...her husband, William of Orange, refused to allow it unless they were JOINT monarchs, and Parliament passed the relevant Act to make William and Mary of Orange joint AND EQUAL King and Queen of Britain. Mostly to avoid any Catholic restoratiobns...of course their daughter Queen Anne outlived her ten children and died of dropsy...and the House of Orange was over: George, the Elector of Hanover was brought in in 1714, and he is the current Queen Elizabeth's lineage...her link to William the Conqueror is tenuous, as George was Protestant but about 53rd in line...but politically expedient to Parliament.The women married to the kings always by definition become Queen Consort (Except Caroline of Brunswick, George IV's cosort...to whom the doors of Westminster Abbey were slammed shut on her husband's orders, so she was not crowned. her only daughter died in 1817 during childbirth...and that princess's husband, Leopold, later became King of the Belgians when Belgium was created in 1830. George's uncle became King William IV in 1820, and his neice Victoria Queen in 1837...Camilla will be Queen Consort, because to make her Princess Consort will require an Act of Parliament...of which there is no precedent, and therefore NOT in the British (unwritten) Constitution. there is only one to ake a male married to the monarch joint ruler...and that's never gonna be swallowed, as there was no imperative reason (such as saving the faith). Elizabeth faced the choice of having Phillip joint and equal King, as precedent laid down by Parliament for William and Mary, but like h**l she would do that. But she also saw herself as Monarch, and he was NOT made Prince Consort...he was made Duke of Edinburgh instead, and so he has remained. Parliament was aware of Lord Mountbatten's dynastic ambitions, and that is why the dynasty name has remained Windsor (as it has when it chaged in 1917), and not made Mountbatten. In a special Act of Parliament in 1960 the question was semi-settled: immediate family members do not use the dynastic surname, only wider family members - but it is still Windsor. Anne signed her marriage certificate though in 1973 when she married Capt Mark Phillips, as Anne Mountbatten-Windsor, and that may or may not be used as a precedent when Charles becomes King...or William, if it passes to him. By the way, the last two Queens of the Netherlands Julianna and Beatrix, retained the name House of Orange, despite marrying Germans, and neither of those Princes became Kings or King Consorts either. there is a trend, if the monarchs and the parliaments deem it expeditious and popular opinion is against change, to retain a dynastic name when there is only a female heir. Diana's family had done that too...as the Spencers died out and became Churchills, then adopted Spencer-Churchill, then later dropped Churchill entirely, reverting to the female line name. All done via Acts of Parliament.

And you wonder why Phil is such a crotchety old man noted for his many affairs himself? haha

Charles is Prince of Wales and is heir to the throne. William is second in line, followed by Harry, then Andrew and so on, down to Haarkon V of Norway, who is about 40th in line! haha

Answer 5

Prince Philip is not the King because he only married the Queen who  was Heiress Presumptive to her father King George Vl. In aristocratic and royal circles the husband does not take on the style and status of the wife, it only works the other way round. So when the Queen married Philip, he remained a Prince, ditto when her sister Margaret married Anthony Armstrong Jones he didn't become a Prince - although he was ennobled and Princess Margaret was styled HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. However when Prince Charles married lady Diana Spencer, she automatically became HRH The Princess of Wales.

If the Queen were to die tomorrow, Prince Charles would become the King. And Camilla would be the Queen!

Answer 6

Just to add to some of the other answers. Prince Philip is actually a prince in his own right..of Greece. He was in line for the British throne (albeit number 700+) and renounced his place when he married Elizabeth. At the time of their marriage, her father King George named Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Upon Elizabeth's coronation, Philip was made a royal prince of the British empire. He will never (and could never) be King as he has only married into the British line. If Elizabeth were to die (heaven help us)  HRH Charles, Prince of Wales is next in line.

The line contiues to Prince William of Wales, Prince Harry of Wales, Prince Andrew (Duke of York), Princess Beatrice of York, Princess Eugenie of York, Prince Edward (Earl of Wessex), Lady Louise Wessex, Princess Anne (The Princess Royal), Peter Phillips, and then Zara Phillips.

Answer 7

Because the UK has male-premogeniture (that is, females can inherit only in the absence of male heirs), King is a 'bigger' title then Queen. Just like in case of the title of the Princess of Wales (which belongs to the wife of the Prince of Wales, there can't be Princess of Wales in her own right, since it's the title of the Heir Apparent, and women are always Heir Presumpatives), King is the title that belongs to Sovereign-only.

There has been only 2 examples in history of England, when the husband of the Queen was King: first was King Philip of Spain, the husband of Queen Mary I. But Philip was King in his own right, and although he enjoyed the style of the 'King of England', he didn't actually exersice any powers (that was one of the conditions of the marriage). Second example is William of Orange, the husband of Queen Mary II. But in their case, they were joint Monarchs, that is, both were Sovereigns, not a Monarch and Consort. After Mary's death, William continued to Reign until his death.

Queen Anne's husband was never King, and Queen Victoria's husband wasn't one either (he was the first, and up to this moment, the last Prince Consort of Britain).

When Her Majesty dies, her eldest son, the Prince of Wales, will automatically become King.

Prince Philip will continue to be The Duke of Edinburgh, for it's a title, granted to him by the late King George.

I expect though, that Prince Charles will grant his father preference over all males in the Kingdom (after the Monarch, naturally).

Currently, Prince Philip enjoys preference over all males in the Kingdom, including The Prince of Wales.

Answer 8

Prince Philip could be titled as "King Consort" if Queen Elizabeth II wanted to, however it is still only a courtesy title. King consort is a title given in some monarchies to the husband of a queen regnant. Nowadays, it is a symbolic title only, the sole constitutional function of the holder being similar to a queen consort, namely to produce an heir to the throne. Spain, Portugal, England and Scotland have all had kings consort; however, since the rank of king normally outranks that of queen, in most monarchies the queen's husband is given the title of prince or prince consort instead.

When Prince Philip first married to then “The Princess Elizabeth”, he was only styled as “His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh.” It was only until 1957 when Philip was finally styled as "His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh". The Queen has never granted the Prince Philip the title of Prince Consort and it was speculated that she would on their 60th anniversary.

Her eldest son, Prince Charles of Wales is first in line to the British throne, followed by her two grandsons Prince Willam and Prince Harry of Wales, and the remaining of her children and grandchildren and further down the line, her cousins and other family members. There are exactly 1345 people in the British line of succession, which also includes her husband, Prince Philip (placed in 480th) and many of them include Royal Houses from other European nation.

Answer 9

Because a woman takes the rank of her husband, but a husband doesn't take the rank of his wife. So, if a woman's rank is higher, her husband's rank doesn't rise.

Prince Charles would become the king if his mother died tomorrow.

Answer 10

You have to be born a King to be....Like William

Charles can be King...rumour says William may be next???

Answer 11

Actually, Philip is as Royal as the Queen.  They are both great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria and Philips grandfather was the King of Greece (even though he was German, they 'offered' him the job as King when they overthrew their own).  Prince Philip was raised as "Philip of Greece," and it was not until he was engaged to Princess Elizabeth that they knew his last name.  Reports say it took 2 weeks for them to figure it out as Battenberg (Mountbatten in english).  So, that makes Philip raised as a regular Prince with no hope for a throne, the husband of a Crowned head.  The fact is, although English law is weak in the protecting of female's titles, it does a great job keeping the Queen as head of England.  Since the Queen MUST be head of state, then the only thing left for Philip was Prince, the same as Queen Victoria's husband.  In fact, it was Queen Victoria who coined the phrase, "Prince Consort."  The same way the Queen Mother became the "Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, Duchess of Kent" MADE UP the title "Queen Mother."  (That way she got Queen in her title TWICE, lol).

Answer 12

He just the Duke of Edinburgh, he is a prince in Greece.  If the queen would happen to die tomorrow, the crown prince, aka Prince Charles would acsend to the throne, and No, Camilla isn't going to be queen, she is just the Dutchess of Cornwall.  And she also doesn't want to be queen.  And if Prince Charles didn't want the throne, it would then go to Prince William, and whoever he married would be queen, if she wanted.

Answer 13

Queen Anne was not the daughter of William and Mary, she was the sister of Mary II. The Queen is  Queen regnant not Queen regent.

There have been six ruling queens in England if you don't count Jane Grey (and few people do). The husbands of two of them were given the title King, Philip of Spain, the husband of Mary I was King consort and William of Orange, the husband of Mary II was King regnant as William III.

Anne, Mary's sister, did not ask for her husband to be made King and he kept his own titles. Victoria wanted Albert to have the title King but Parliament refused and gave him the title Prince Consort instead. Albert is the only person to have had the title Prince Consort, it has not been granted to Prince Philip.

The husband of a ruling Queen can be granted the title King by Parliament and in two cases out of five (Elizabeth I never married) they have done so. The current Queen could have asked for the title for Philip but didn't. Victoria asked that as her husband could not be called King, future Queens should not ask for the title for their husbands.

The wife of a King, however, is always a Queen. It has been the tradition for over a thousand years. I really can't see such a tradition being broken when Charles is crowned. Camilla will be Queen.

"The same way the Queen Mother became the "Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, Duchess of Kent" MADE UP the title "Queen Mother." "

Normally, the widow of a King takes the title Queen Dowager but as Queen Mary, the widow of George V, was still alive when George VI died, she had that title and it was unavailable to Queen Elizabeth, the widow of George VI. She coined the title Queen Mother to be used instead.

Answer 14

Philip is not a king because he is not the sovereign.  If the Queen got run over by her carriage, Charles would become King.

Answer 15

Queen Elizabeth II was heir to her father,King George VI. She was the direct hereditary descendant and heir presumptive to her father and ascended the throne upon his death. Prince Philip,of the Royal House of Schlessweig-Holstein-

Sonderburg-Glucksburg, renamed Mountbatten,a third cousin to Elizabeth,is Prince Consort,the proper title for the spouse of a Queen Regent.Since it is Elizabeth who reigns,the highest title in the land is Queen.No one can bear a title higher than the monarch's,so since king presumes the monarch,Philip is Prince Consort.

When Elizabeth dies,her son, Charles,Prince of Wales, her heir apparent, will reign. Second and third in line of succession are his sons, William and Harry.

The Queen cannot name her husband King if she wanted to.This requires an ACT of PARLIAMENT!And she has never had any intentions of doing so; she takes her royal duties seriously and is quite willing to do her job.

Prince Philip DIDNOT have to give up his throne

to marry Elizabeth;he did not have a throne,he was simply a prince of Greece. His uncle,Lord Louis Mountbatten,thought that by Philip's becoming an English citizen, he would be more readily accepted into the Royal Family.

Answer 16

Succession is by blood line only.  One can become a consort of royalty, but never inherit the title of their spouse(marry a royal personage).

      Upon Queen Elizabeth II's death, if Charles were still alive, he would accede to the throne; if not, then his eldest son.

     Among royalty and the nobility, primogeniture is the standard rule of succession: the oldest living male inherits the title.

                                            Wotan