I hate to dash all your “little girl in a pink party dress” (trademark pending) dreams of becoming a “little princess in a pink party dress”, but getting a royal title isn’t as easy as slipping a mickey in a prince’s drink on a yacht in the Mediterranean.
disney princess in the making!
But the previous post on Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip opened a question – how’s she Queen and her husband Prince? Are they into some role-play we don’t know about?
hold my coat, bitch
The following is a conversation which happened post-the-last-post:
Faithful Reader: I don’t watch the crown or know this stuff but Prince Phillip is Queen-E’s … husband? How come he’s so non-prominent? And why he no the king?
FR: oh. Couple married 70 years. Yea. Okay. So why’s he so background then?
ILGIPPD: under their system, the spouse can’t take a title higher than the inherited rulerif the inherited ruler’s a man, the spouse gets the feminine version (duke / duchess)
ILGIPPD: if the inherited ruler’s a woman, the spouse gets no title, but the ruler is allowed to give them one
FR: So it would have been King Charles and Duchess Diana?
FR: Or no. cuz princess is greater than duchess? Wtf is this shit
ILGIPPD: phillip was a prince of an extinct throne (prince of greece or some shit) before marrying the queen and had to give that up, and then she gave him a title a few years after being married of “prince”
ILGIPPD: it would’ve been (additionally, confusingly) King Charles and Diana, Queen Consort
remember when Newsweek thought they could add some wrinkles onto Princess Diana and call it a day?
Does that clear it up for everyone? Their system sounds wrong to begin with – after all, it looks like men in the line get the best opportunity here, their partner gets to take a version of their title and everyone’s happy.
Then you realize that if a woman inherits the throne, she actually gets all the power – her mere mortal husband doesn’t even have to get a title.
yes, that’s her full title. yes, I’d make people address me by it in its entirety if I was her. yes, i’d have an alligator pit if they got it wrong
In fact, Queen Elizabeth II waited a full decade after they were married to give Phillip the title of Prince.
as depicted on Netflix’s “The Crown”, or to The Queen, “hey, I remember that”
Still no word on what happens to gay royals – the Queen’s bisexual cousin Lord Ivar Mountbatten married a male flight attendant in 2018 but it doesn’t look like they became Lord and Lord (hope they didn’t order the monogrammed towels too soon).
The moral of the story?
If you’re a non-royal woman – get your bikini and hangover cure ready, you’re headed to a dock in Monaco!
If you’re a non-royal man – here you go:
