Wednesday, February 09, 2011

What's in a name?

This question of whether Camilla will become Queen if and when Charles succeeds to the throne has raised its head again, and it's all a mater of semantics.  Yes, she would become Queen (strictly speaking, Queen Consort) because she would be the wife of a King - simple as that.  Whether she will be referred to as Queen is a different matter, and as far as I am aware it has already been officially suggested that she is likely to be referred to as "Her Royal Highness the Princess Consort", which is a bit of a mouthful, so we'll have to wait and see, but the fact is she would be Queen whatever she is called.

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