Charles III, King of the United Kingdom, became officially in the country the day before yesterday, Saturday, after an official ceremony in Westminster Abbey, and Camilla also obtained the official title of accompanying queen, but why did Elizabeth II’s husband, Philip, not obtain the position of king?, This is what the following report will answer .
And the wives of British kings get the title of the accompanying queen, and this is what happened in Queen Elizabeth, the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and the wife of King George VI, but in the case of Camilla, the matter was different because she is not the first wife of Charles.
The title of Queen appears for the first time for Camilla
Queen Elizabeth II was granted the title of “Queen Consort” in February of last year during the Platinum Jubilee. However, it was then that the title “Queen” appeared for the first time when invitations to the coronation were sent.
A royal source told CNN: “It is logical to refer to Her Majesty as the accompanying queen in the first months of Charles’ reign, to distinguish from Queen Elizabeth II,” noting that the coronation ceremony was an appropriate time to refer to Camilla as the queen.
The difference between the accompanying and ruling queen
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation stated that Camilla is a queen of the United Kingdom, but she does not have the same powers as the late Queen Elizabeth, and she cannot rule the country because she is actually the “escorting queen” because she is married to the king, at a time when Elizabeth II was the “ruling queen.”
New marriage after Diana’s death
Charles married Diana Spencer and became a princess in 1981, at the time Camilla married Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973 and then divorced in 1995, and Diana died in an accident in 1997, then Charles and Camilla married in 2005 in a private civil ceremony and then the accompanying princess became pregnant .
Rules in the royal family
Unlike the ladies in the royal family, husbands in the monarchy did not bear the title of king because tradition forbids the inheritance of the title of king, because the king is a higher degree than the queen in the British monarchy.
Philip obtains the title of duke and then prince
Prince Philip obtained the title of Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich, and when he married Queen Elizabeth II in 1947, he received the titles of duke, and finally Queen Elizabeth officially appointed him a prince in 1957.
