Isn't the husband of a queen a king?
2006-12-17 13:08:32 · 14 answers · asked by spoongentry 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
actualy, Prince Philip is Queen Elizabeth's husband but in the English Monarchy Law says that "if a man/woman wishes to engage with man/woman that person who proposed with someone will be a King or Queen". It is not permited to have a King & Queen of England it is only aloud a King or Queen of England
But Prince Philip is aloud to marry someone but when Queen Elizabeth is deceased and Prince Philip have proposed with someone, then he will be made as King of England
2006-12-17 14:29:12 · answer #1 · answered by brianangelo_gonzales 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Why isn't Prince Philip (Queen Elizabeth's husband) a king?
2014-12-16 13:01:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is the Royal Consort. He walks 2 steps behind her. He is not of royal blood. SHE is the heir to the throne, not HIM. And a king always has more power than the queen. So if the Queen is the heir to the throne, her husband is not king. He is a Prince. If the heir to the throne is a man (king), it's ok that his wife is Queen. He still outranks her.
Queen Eliz II's daddy was King, but he had 2 daughters, no sons. So the oldest daughter, Eliz, was made queen. Her younger sister, Margaret, remained a Princess.
When QE 2 dies, her eldest male child, Charles, will become King. Prince Phillip is out of the picture, other than being the King of England's pappy.
2006-12-17 15:18:40 · answer #3 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If he had been King she would have been Queen with them both being Prince and Princess when they married.
In the marital world women take the name of the husband not the other way round and that applies to royals.Queens can't make Kings as they are higher up in the royalty list.
The queens mum became queen(but not as official) when she married King George,but lost the title when he died because it was only by marriage and because she was'nt an heir.
2006-12-19 06:03:37 · answer #4 · answered by Countess 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A King may be married to a Queen Consort.
A Queen Regnant can be married to a Duke, a Prince, or in the case of Queen Victoria, to a Prince Consort.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is a Queen Regnant (a Reigning Queen) because her father, the Late King George VI did not have any sons to be come King; he just had two daughters. Our present Queen was the elder daughter so she became the Sovereign. She can not be "King" since "King" is the title for men. So she is Queen Regnant.
Prince Philip is a Prince because she created him as a Prince. He was not the (eldest) son of the late King of England, therefore he did not become King.
"King" is NOT ever the title for the consort of a reigning Queen.
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2006-12-17 13:28:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Only sort of. The wife of a ruling monarch is a queen but the husband of a ruling monarch is a prince. Possible the only exception is King William and Queen Anne. She refused to take the succession unless her husband who was already King of Orange could retain his title
2006-12-17 13:19:02 · answer #6 · answered by St N 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The consort always takes a lesser title, not equal to or greater than the monarch. A king trumps a queen trumps a prince, etc.
2006-12-17 13:25:28 · answer #7 · answered by Some Like 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because he is just the husband of the Queen, and the British gave him the tittle of Prince, originally he was the son of a Nobel Grek, german couple, and he was the nephew of the famous Lord Mountbatten, so he is a Consort Prince
2006-12-17 14:03:29 · answer #8 · answered by pelancha 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He is not born of British Royalty, and only the bloodline males can become King. So therefore by marrying the Queen, who is bloodline, he has become the Queen's Consort not the King.
2006-12-17 19:50:04 · answer #9 · answered by sarch_uk 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I've always wondered about that
I see him on TV all the time just walking beside queen Elizabeth, and smiling to people...While she gets all the media attention, and she's the one that's always meeting people and traveling around...strange isnt it?
2006-12-17 13:13:38 · answer #10 · answered by AG 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋