Why is a Queen's husband not a King when a Kings wife is a Queen?

Question

I am think of course of the current Queen and her husband Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinbrurgh

yes I know he was born a prince but I read he took on that title with his marriage to at the time princess Elizabeth 2. (and becoming a British citizen) When his wife took the title of Queen he remained just a prince?

When his father in-law became King his wife took the title of Queen. (well Queen Consort) but still Queen. Why can't he take the title of King Consort?

Also another question Queen Elizabeth 2 who was Queen Elizabeth 1?

Was it her Mother or was in Queen Elizabeth Tutor? I had always thought it was Elizabeth Tutor but I didn't know her Mother's name was Elizabeth as well. But then again Elizabeth 2 was already born when Her parents unexpectedly became the King and Queen

Answer 1

It is a matter of preference.  Some Kings regnant have queen consorts and some have princess consorts.  Similarly, some queens regnant have king consorts and some have prince consorts.  Since Philip was already a prince it was simple enough to keep him as a prince consort.

As for your other question, Elizabeth Tudor (with a "d") was Queen Elizabeth I.  Also, since Queen Elizabeth II's mother was only ever queen consort and never queen regnant she could not have been Queen Elizabeth the first.  Only kings and Queens regnant contribute to the numerical progression of styles. (i.e. George I, II, or III)

Answer 2

The Queen makes the King . think about it for a moment. : )

Answer 3

In europe, when a man marries a Queen, it is more common for him become a Prince Consort, and titled and styled as "His Royal Highness Prince X." In recognition of his status, the prince consort can be given a formal title, such as Prince, Prince Consort or King Consort, with Prince being the most common.

Prince Consort (capitalized) is quite different from the above as it is a formal title. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is the only spouse of a British queen ever to have held it. It was awarded to him in 1857 by his wife, Queen Victoria (reigned 1837–1901). In 2005, Prince Henrik, the spouse of Margrethe II of Denmark, was awarded the same title.

A prince consort, generally speaking, is a common term for the husband of a Queen Regnant, unless he himself also is a king in his own right. Current examples include the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (husband of Elizabeth II, prince consort in each of the realms of which she is Queen), and Prince Henrik of Denmark (husband of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark).

The title "King consort" could also be awarded to the husband of a Queen, however, this is very rare. 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.

Only a ruling monarch will have their own "reign title" such as Elizabeth II and King George VII during their coronation, so Elizabeth I is referring to Elizabeth Tudor. The current Queen's mother was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, she became Queen Elizabeth - the Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom in 1936. After her husband's death, she was known as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Elizabeth II. Before her husband ascended the throne, from 1923 to 1936 she was known as the Duchess of York, the feminine equivalent title of her husband.

Answer 4

The woman married to a king of Great Britain is a Queen Consort, not a Queen (as in being a monarch). Prince Phillip was a prince of Greece, and that title was renounced when he married the heir presumptive, Princess Elizabeth, in 1947, six years before she became Queen.

There is no provison in the unwritten British Constitution, (Which are the combined Acts of Parliament and therefore tradition), for the husband of a reigning monarch who is female (and therefore Queen), to be King, as there IS no precedent for a King Consort. In 1688 the Glorious Revolution wh9ich brough Mary Stuart back from the Netherlands to be Queen, her husband William of Orange refused to come UNLESS he was joint monarch with her...that's how William and Mary became joint King and Queen of England, by a special Act of Parliament, when Mary would otherwise have vbeen sole monarch. this was a specific Act during a Constitutional Crisis (the deposition of James II and protecting the kingdom from Catholic claimants...the effective end of the Stuarts)

Phillip was re-created a prince of ther United Kingdom, prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, and follwing the precedent when Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, he became Prince Consort.

Phillip was raised in Britain, but was of mixed Danish-German parentage in a dynasty elected by the council of Europe to the throne of Greece in 1868. He was a Battenburg on his mother's side...which was Anglicised to Mountbatten during the anti-German feelings of WW1 in 1917...the same time the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's changed to...Windsor. There was no constitutional crisis when Philip married Princess Elizabeth - and it would never have been popular, during the austerity years after WW2 and victory in the recent war, to have a special Act of Parliament to create the position of King Consort. And then...Elizabeth was the one in line for the throne, and she did not want to share the position of monarch...as an equal...when a man in her position would not do that. A Queen Consort does not 'rule' Neither does a Prince Consort...and the only precedent was for joint kingship, if you like, as in William and Mary. And that would have been incredibibly unpopular with the public, for when they married, the newspaper banner has headlines like "Princess to marry Ex-Greek!" There would have been no toleration for a non-British joint King.

As for your query of who was Elizabeth I...she was Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn (Anne was technically not beheaded for not producing a son after onlt 3 years marriage, but because the king met someone else, so had her executed for adultery instead), Queen of England from 1558 when her older half-sister, Mary Tudor (daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon), died after 5 years on the throne, from uterine cancer. She reigned until 1603, and was succeeded by her cousin, James Stuart, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who became James I of England and James VI of Scotland.

Only a reigning monarch is designated by number...a Consort is not. Therefore the forner Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons became the Duchess of York when she married Prince Albert (later George VI). He was the second son of King George V, (who was also the second son of Edward VII, as his older brother had died in 1894 while engaged to Princess Mary of Teck. mary of Teck subsequently married...George).

Princess Elizabeth was already considered the likely heir, after her father, because Edward VIII, George's older brother, was middle aged and showed no signs of marrt=ying anyone suitable. In 1936 King George V died, leaving Queen Mary as Dowager Queen (like  Queen Consort, a courtesy title). In that year the king abdicated before his coronation in favour of his brother - and went and married an American divorcee, Wallis Warfield Simpson. They became the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Duke of York became George VI, his wife Elizabeth became Queen Elizabethm the Queen Consort, and their eldest daughter Princess Elizabeth, became second in line to the throne.

When George died in 1953, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Consort DID NOT WANT to be known as the Dowager Queen. The title Queen Mother was reinstated for her. It is a courtesy title used for mothers of the monarch before.

The only oddity is that Elizabeth II is the 2nd of the name to be Queen of England...but she should be Elizabeth I of Scotland, and for that matter, as Queen of Australia, Elizabeth 1 here too...but that was deemed a bit too complicated (like the dynasty name now) and was shelved as too difficult, so she is known throughout as Elizabeth II.

By the way, a King is not a higher title than a Queen, as another answer suggests: a monarch is a monarch male or female. A consort is just that - a consort, male or female.

In brief: A consort does not rule, has no 'number' attached to a name, and there is no precedent for the title 'King Consort'

I hope that explains everything enough for you? Take care!

Answer 5

Because its an era where feminism rules ahahahaa

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Answer 6

Because that system is a matriarchatus, not patriarchatus.

Answer 7

Queen Elizabeth II, inherited her throne from her father being the fact that she was his oldest child and he did not have a son. Prince Phillip did not become King Phillip because a King is a higher rank than a Queen. He was not in the hereditary bloodline.   Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert was her consort as well and was never a King for the same reason as Prince Phillip.

Queen Elizabeth II's mother's name was also Elizabeth but she was not a ruling Queen like her daughter. She married into the family. Queen Elizabeth I was Princess Elizabeth Tudor before she took the throne as Queen Elizabeth the first.  Her parent's were King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, whom was beheaded for not giving birth to any sons.

Answer 8

Queen Elizabeth II is QUEEN REGENT,a hereditary title.Her husband is not REGENT or ruler,he is just her husband. Prince Philip,of the  Danish/German Royal House of Shlesweig-Holstein-

Sonderburg-Glucksburg,

third cousin to his wife,can't bear a title higher than the reigning monarch's Queen Regent,so he bears the title of Prince Consort.The title "King" presumes a monarch,so husbands of reigning queens use the "Prince Consort" title.Philip doesn't have powers to reign like Elizabeth has.It would take an Act of Parliament for a husband of a reigning queen to become queen.And the queens of the past usually preferred doing their jobs and not passing on the duties;Elizabeth is very proud to do her royal duty and reign as solo monarch.

And notice,I wrote that Philip was BORN a royal prince(of Greece,Denmark and Germany),he didn't "take on" the title. He did become a British citizen,but that didn't wipe out the fact that he,too, was of royal birth.

Queen Elizabeth I was a Tudor Queen(she reigned from 1558-1603, the last Tudor monarch - was born at Greenwich on 7 September 1533, the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn).

Queen Elizabeth,The Queen Mother, was the current Queen's mother.She was born Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, a Scotswoman.She married Bertie,who became King George VI;she was his Queen CONSORT,wife of the king.