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A princess, Prince Philip is a Prince not a king wont it be the same for camilla? She will be a princess not a queen
I see your point duchess but he's a prince already so he then becomes a King and a King trumps a Queen (kind of, it's sexist isn't it?) so surely she'll be a Queen?  I see your point but I wonder if it works the same way.  And what if Charles dies, she can't then become the Queen Mother of William?  Now I think about it, I think you're probably right, but it still sounds a bit daft calling her a princess when she's married to the King.
Carnelian
Reference duchess Today at 02:13:
"If he ends up being king then she'll be queen, even if she's not formally given the title. What else could she be?"
A princess, Prince Philip is a Prince not a king wont it be the same for camilla? She will be a princess not a queen
No - the wife of a British King becomes the Queen Consort. That's the way the system always works.
It's different for the husband of a Queen. In the UK, there no automatic right of the consort of a Queen to receive any title. Queen Victoria wanted to make her husband King Consort, but the government refused as Albert was a foreigner.
Our Queen's husband Phillip was never been formally designated Prince Consort or King Consort. He wasn't given the title "Prince of the United Kingdom" until five years after she became Queen. To some extent, this was to restore his old status: Phillip was originally a "Prince of Greece and Denmark", but renounced that title before his marriage, and was then made a Duke.

The whole nonsense about Camilla being "Princess Consort" was just a sop to public opinion. It's significant that the official government line has always contradicted this, and it was confirmed during Parliamentary discussion "that she would necessarily retain the legal prerogatives reserved for, and the legal title of, a British queen consort". As I understand it, it would require an Act of Parliament for her not to become Queen...
Eugene's Lair

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