When Prince Charles becomes king, a crown will also be placed on the head of his wife Camilla. For years it had been assumed that the Duchess, as a sign of than the memory of the late Princess Diana (or to avoid confrontation with her former rival, as some royal biographers claimed), she would have settled for a unpublished title of princess consort. But on the weekend that marked the beginning of its Platinum Jubilee, The Queen himself took care of all doubts. Elizabeth II in fact, he has clearly stated that he wishes his daughter-in-law to have the title of queen when Charles is crowned king.
The same did not happen to her husband, the late Philipwho in order to marry her had had to renounce the titles of prince of Greece and Denmark. When Elizabeth was crowned in 1953, Philip was not proclaimed king. The Queen, in 1957, granted him “only” the title of Prince of the United Kingdom. And so he remained throughout his life. An apparent “injustice” which in reality is only linked to an ancient tradition: “In the Anglo-Saxon royalty”, always “a king’s wife is called a queen consort but a queen’s husband is called a prince consort and not a king consortAs a royal expert clarified a Harpersbazaar. And indeed he was never even king husband of Queen Victoria, Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, prince consort since 1857 and always at the behest of his wife. In short, a king consort in the British royal family has never existed. Because of a habit that does not have an obvious reason or a triggering cause. Simply, by an unwritten rule, only the heir to the throne to whom the crown is actively transmitted can be kingwhile a queen can also be the consort of a sovereign.
And in fact, as regards the female counterpart, it has always been preferred to use “queen consort” instead of “princess consort”. It generally works like this in other European monarchies as well. To find a princess consort we have to look to the Principality of Monaco with Charléne, wife of Albert, or to Liechtenstein, with the late princess Marie, wife of Hans-Adam II. Or we have to go in Morocco. Princess Lalla Salmawife of the king Mohammed VIshe is not queen consort but on the other hand she boasts a record: she is the first wife of a Moroccan sovereign to have publicly received a noble title.
Source: Vanity Fair
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