Is a Duchess or Countess or Baroness higher up in royalty?

Question

Is a Duchess or Countess or Baroness higher up in royalty? and why? What are the differences?

Lord or Lady
Baron Baroness
Earl/Count Countess
Viscount Viscountess
Marquis Marchioness
Duke Duchess


Here are a few more.. whats best?

Answer 1

In the British system, the ranks of nobility are:

1. Duke/Duchess
2. Marquess/Marchiones
3. Earl/Countess
4. Viscount/Viscountess
5. Baron/Baroness

Answer 2

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Is a Duchess or Countess or Baroness higher up in royalty?
Is a Duchess or Countess or Baroness higher up in royalty? and why? What are the differences?

Answer 3

Royalty is about bloodline and these titles have nothing to do with blood. However, I think the hierarchy (top down) goes Duchess, Countess, Baroness. Here's why:

The Queen's second son, Prince Andrew, is the Duke of York, so his ex-wife was the Duchess of York.
The Queen's second son, Prince Edward, is the Earl of Wessex, so his wife is the Countess of Wessex.
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was given the title Baroness Thatcher once she was no longer PM - she's not related to royalty in any way.

Answer 4

Jeremy H has the right order, and Gr8danelady is right to say that royalty and aristocracy are different: most titled women are not royal. But the Oliver H is wrong to say that these titled women 'invariably' get their titles through marriage. Right now in Britain there is a Countess of Mar and Countess Mountbatten, and there have been duchesses in their own right in the past (the last one died in 1959). Lady Mar has a Scottish title, and Scottish law is more favourable to female succession, and the first Lord Mountbatten had a special clause in the document creating his title enabling his daughter to succeed.

There have also been viscountesses in their own right (Wolseley, by succession, and Daventry by creation) though I can't think of any marchionesses in their own right.

The main difference now, aside from precedence, is that most baronesses have their titles for life and so can sit in parliament, while those of higher rank are hereditary and cannot automatically sit in parliament.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

In the United Kingdom royal dukes trump all other aristocrats. Prince Charles is a royal duke and Camilla, as a royal duchess is also at the top of the tree. After this, there are duchesses, marchionesses, countesses, viscountesses and baronesses, in descending order. These are invariably the wives of dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons respectively. However, there are a large numbers of baronesses in their own right as they can be created as life peeresses in their own right and can therefore sit in the House of Lords (which is the upper chamber of the Houses of Parliament).

Any female can obtain a title and become an aristocrat by marrying a titled man but it does not work in reverse.

The terms 'peer' and 'aristocrat' are collective terms for all the ranks of nobility listed above. Royalty is above any rank of nobility and consists of the monarch (king or queen), princes and princesses.

On formal occasions, peers wear ceremonial robes lined with ermine with gold braiding which differs to show which rank they belong to. At coronations, every peer also wears a coronet, with distinguishing marks which again show which rank the wearer belongs to.

I hope this is useful: please feel free to ask any other questions.

Answer 7

duchess countess baroness higher royalty

Answer 8

Duchess

Answer 9

1st Duchess
2nd countess
3erd baroness a Duchess does not have to a Royal
none of these titles have to be a Royal person.
4th lady

Answer 10

If I remember right, they are all sort of equal, and a baroness is really a lady, as is a duchess but occasionally a duchess can be a princess (like in Britain). It really depends on the country, sometimes the countess is higher than the duchess and vice versa.