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You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. But when Queen Elizabeth took the throne, Philip did not become the King of England, thanks to a longstanding rule in the royal family which decrees that a man who marries a reigning queen will only be referred to as a Prince Consort.
In , Philip, then known only as the Duke of Edinburgh, officially became a Prince after Queen Elizabeth bestowed the title upon him. Women who marry into the royal family have to follow slightly different rules. The wife of a ruling King would take the title of Queen Consort, a symbolic role that would bar her from ruling as a monarch but refer to her as queen.
He also had a long list of earned, ceremonial and honorary ranks and titles, like Lord High Admiral, which was gifted to him by the Queen for his 90th birthday. He also had an Australian knighthood, awarded to him by then-prime minister Tony Abbott in Prince Philip married into the British royal family. Some spouses of queens have been given the title of kings and gone on to co-rule with their wives, but other queens declared their husbands prince consorts and ruled on their own.
Queen Elizabeth had the power to make Prince Philip the first king consort in England's history if she really wanted to, but she never did, so he remained a prince and the Duke of Edinburgh. The titles of queen or queen consort, however, can be used either for a ruling monarch or ceremonially for the wife of a crowned king. When a king is crowned, his wife usually becomes queen or some variation of the title. Queen Elizabeth II's mother, also Elizabeth, became queen consort when her husband was crowned king, and was most commonly known as the Queen Mother.
When Prince William becomes king, his wife Kate will become queen consort and go by the title of Queen Catherine. But Prince Charles's wife Camilla likely won't become queen consort when Charles takes over the throne — not strictly based on tradition, but based on preference.
When Camilla and Charles were married, they released a statement confirming that the Duchess of Cornwall would not use the Princess of Wales title, as a sign of respect for Charles's first wife, the late Princess Diana. They also foreshadowed that Camilla would not take the queen consort title when Charles is crowned, with a spokesperson confirming that she will be known as princess consort instead.
There was some dispute over this around the time of their wedding , with some members of the British government saying Camilla would automatically be queen when Charles became king. But a spokesperson for the Department of Constitutional Affairs said at the time that there was no single law stating that someone with the Duchess of Cornwall's future position had to be known as queen. After that, the line of succession takes some twists and turns — including allowing for a change of legislation introduced in , which ruled that younger sons could no longer displace older daughters born after October 28,
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