Understanding British Royal Titles & the Nobility

highest title is that of king or queen king is easy recalls automatically we know he is the sovereign the monarch the head honcho there are two types of Queens one a queen regnant and - a queen consort a queen regnant is the female version of a king she is the sovereign the monarch the head honcho a queen consort is the spouse of a king the correct term is the king's consort basically the King's wife the word consort actually means spouse male or female for the past 66 years the United Kingdom have had a queen regnant in the form of queen elizabeth ii her husband Prince Philip is a Queen's consort of a Queen's husband while the consort of a king in England and the United Kingdom is automatically a queen the reverse does not apply when the sovereign is a queen regnant the spouse of a queen regnant does not automatically become king only twice in the history of the United England since 1066 and later the United Kingdom after 1704 as a spouse of a queen regnant been made King the first case was in 1553 when Queen Mary the first married king philip ii of spain he did not want to feel inferior to his wife so parliament agreed that he should be king however there were two main restrictions one he had no right of survivorship that is when the Queen died he had no right to the throne second he could not sign documents on his own it needed both his and his wife's signature to be valid the second occasion with in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution James the 2nd and 7th was declared by Parliament to have abdicated when he fled to France during the revolution the throne was offered to his daughter Mary who agreed to accept on one condition that her husband William of Orange was made king with her Parliament agreed this was the only true joint monarchy in the history of England and the United Kingdom since the Norman conquest of 1066 unlike philip ii of spain william could sign documents on his own and also have the right of succession they reigned together as William the third and Mary the second Mary died first in 1694 and William continued his King until his own death in 1702 the second highest title is that of the Prince of Wales this is a title that is usually given to the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom since 1301 most heirs to the throne in England and the United Kingdom have been Prince of Wales I say most because it is not an automatic title the title has to be invested by the suffering upon the heir apparent on the males are created Prince of Wales the title Duke of Cornwall is an automatic title for the heir to the throne kornel is a Duchy the first Duchy created in England in 1337 and is the personal property of the heir to the throne the heir to the throne if a woman does not become Duchess of Cornwall Princess Elizabeth while heir to her the gorge the six was not Princess of Wales or Duchess of Cornwall only the wife of the Duke of Cornwall is Duchess of Cornwall as well as only the wife of the Prince of Wales becomes Princess of Wales the princess Royale is the highest female title only held by the oldest daughter of the something the title was created by Charles the first in 1642 made for his oldest daughter Princess Mary Charles's wife henrietta maria of france lamented she had no special title to give her oldest daughter mary as in france she would have been known as Madame Royale it is not an automatic title it has to be awarded by the sovereign there can only be one living Princess Royal at a time the current Princess Royal is Princess Anne if Prince William was to become King tomorrow for example he could not make his daughter Princess Charlotte the princess Royale he would have to wait on her princess and the current Princess Royal dies Princess Anne was 15 when the previous Princess Royal Princess Mary died in 1965 her mother Queen Elizabeth the second did not invest her with the title of Princess Royal until 1987 by the Queen's Order in Council the Duke of Edinburgh has place preeminence and precedence over all men in the United Kingdom except where provided by Parliament such as Charles Prince of Wales usually if Prince Philip is with the Queen he outranks his son if Prince Philip is alone the Prince of Wales outranks him in most situations the Royal Dukes are higher than princes in most situations as usual there are exceptions to every rule the wife of a Duke is a duchess and as such would be higher than a blood princess the blood princess is a woman born a princess exam example Princess Anne Princess Alexandra and the princess is Beatrice and Eugenie the sovereign is the font of Honor where titles are concerned and they can make changes grant titles and remove titles in 2005 queen elizabeth ii changed the order of precedence for private occasions putting Camilla Duchess of Cornwall 4th in the order of precedence after herself and Princess Royal and Princess Alexandra contrary to the usual position of the heirs consort Charles's first wife Diana Princess of Wales and ranked above the Princess Royal and Princess Alexandra the Duchess of Cornwall continues to rank second in the order of precedence that official occasions such as the state dinners princesses of the blood royal such as princesses Beatrice of York and Princess Eugenie of York ranked about Catherine Duchess of Cambridge and Megan Duchess of Sussex when the latter are not accompanied by their husbands when the Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of Sussex are joined by their husbands the roles are reversed and the Duchess is out ranking the princesses when a woman marries the Prince she automatically cheers all his titles she however does not become a princess with a given name in the case of Diana she became Princess of Wales not Princess Diana the title Princess Diana does not exist and never existed the Megan immortal on marrying Prince Henry became the Royal Highness Princess Henry of Wales however her husband was awarded a higher title that a Duke of Sussex so she uses the higher title Duchess of Sussex the same applies to Kate Middleton who on marrying Prince William became Princess William of Wales that her husband was awarded a higher title that a Duke of Cambridge so she uses the higher title of Duchess of Cambridge Baroness Marie Christine of honor right nits married the second husband Prince Michael of Kent in 1978 so she became princess Michael of Kent he was not given a higher title thus he remains Prince Michael of Kent and her princess Michael of Kent a man marrying a princess does not get his wife's titles and is not guaranteed a title Princess Anne's first husband Captain Mark Phillips did not receive a title her second and current husband had a very distinguished Navy career and rose to the rank of vice-admiral a Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence was eventually knighted and is now vice admiral sir Timothy Laurence his wife thus becomes her royal highness the printers royal lady Lawrence as the wife of a knight is a lady the Queen's niece and only daughter of the late Princess Margaret Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones married a commoner Daniel Chateau Lady Sarah eventually became Lady Sarah also Jones mrs. Daniel chattel Lady Sarah sought permission from her aunt of the Queen to be styled lady chato honoring her husband who has no title Her Majesty granted her wish through letters patent she is now known as Lady Sarah chatter on rare occasions a woman can be a Duke currently among the other titles of Her Majesty the Queen is Duke of Lancaster royal dukedoms in the United Kingdom in the British peerage a royal Duke is a member of the British royal family entitled to the titular dignity of prince and the style of is royal highness who holds the Dukedom dictums are the highest titles in the British role of peerage and the holders of these particular dukedoms our princes of the blood royal the holders of dukedoms are royal not the titles themselves they are titles created and bestowed on legitimate sons and male line grandsons of the British monarch usually upon reaching their majority or manage the titles can be inherited but seems to be called royal once they passed beyond the grand sums of a monarch as with any parish once the title becomes a stinked it may subsequently be recreated by the reigning monarch at any time in the United Kingdom there is nothing intrinsic to any dukedom that makes it royal rather these parodies are called royal dukedoms because they are created for and held by a member of the royal family who is entitled to the titular dignity of prince and the style royal highness although the term royal duke therefore has no official meaning per se the category duke of the blood royal was acknowledged as a rank conferring special precedence at court in Leon revoked xx Clause of the Lord Chamberlain's order of 15-20 this decree accorded precedence to any peer related by blood to the sovereign above all others of the same degree within the peerage the order did not apply within Parliament nor did he grant precedence above the Archbishop of Canterbury or other great offices of state such as now enjoyed by Royal Dukes but it placed Junior Dukes of the blood royal above the most senior non-royal Dukes Junior Elves of the blood royal above the most senior non-royal Earl's such as the Earl of Wessex it did not matter how distantly related to the monarch the peers might be presumably they ranked among each other in the order of succession to the crown although the 15-20 order is theoretically still in effect in fact the blood royal clause seems to have fallen into disuse by 1917 when george v limited the style of Royal Highness to children and male aligned grandchildren of the sovereign therefore peers of the blood royale who are neither sons nor grandsons of a sovereign are no longer accorded precedence above other peers under the 20th of november 1917 letters patent by george v the titular dignity of prince or princess and the style royal highness were restricted to the legitimate children of a sovereign the legitimate children of a sovereign legitimate sons and the eldest living legitimate son of the eldest legitimate son of a prince of wales in 2012 queen elizabeth ii extended the style royal highness from the eldest living legitimate son of the eldest legitimate son of a prince of wales to all the children of the eldest son of a prince of wales should have an enjoy the style title and attribute of royal highness presuming the current Duke of Gloucester and Duke of Kent are succeeded by their eldest sons Alexander Earl of Ulster and George Earl st. Andrews respectively those parishes will cease to be royal dukedoms instead the title holders will become ordinary dukes the 3rd Duke of Gloucester and Kent will each be styled His grace because as great great grandsons of George v they are not princes and are not styled HRH coronet of the Duke of Cornwall and roses a coronet of the dukes of Cambridge and Sussex coronet of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of York coronet of the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent the Prince of Wales has different titles depending on where here Prince of Wales is obvious when he's in the Duchy of Cornwall is it Duke of Cornwall when in Scotland is a Ducati and in Northern Ireland is the Earl of Carrick a peer of the realm is someone who holds one or more of five possible titles Duke Marcus of I can't Oh Baron inherited from a direct ancestor or bestowed upon him or her by the monarch tracing its origins to feudal times peers were vassals of the monarch in other words servants who swore an oath of loyalty in exchange for protection or a fight a bequest of land or money these barons were periodically summoned to the council or Parliament forming the origins of the House of Lords historically the peerage formed a tightly knit group of powerful Nobles interrelated through blood and marriage in successive generations and highly protective of their lands and rights their fortunes rose and fell according to the stability of the kingdom and their favour with the sovereign the Tudors for example executed imprisoned and suppressed almost every nobleman who had any Plantagenet blood in his veins and instead created a new aristocracy from the lesser branches of old families and from the gentry and Knightly classes subsequent changes made by the royal houses of Stuart hannover and Windsor have similarly brought new blood and new titles to the peerage the ranks of the peerage were further enlarged by the passing of the life peerage acts of 1958 the last three hereditary peerages including royal parishes were created in 1984 when Harold Macmillan was created Earl of Stockton and William white law and majority Thomas were created by caps of these three only Macmillan had an air of a separate peerages of Scotland and England continued until 1707 when the two kingdoms combined under the Act of Union as the peerage of Great Britain the separate peerage of Ireland existed until 1801 when Great Britain and Ireland were combined under the second act of Union since 1801 the peerage has been styled the peerage of the United Kingdom the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 did not affect the rights of the hereditary peers of Ireland to their titles and the Lord Chancellor's office continues to receive and report on their claims to have their names added to the role of the peerage while the reform of the House of Lords act in 1999 has greatly reduced the political power of the peerage their social influence remains undiminished and their lives remain a source of interest and speculation the baronetage a new lower degree was added to the nobility by King James the first when he created the hereditary order of baronet's in 1611 the baronetage this was in effect a hereditary knighthood baronet's had no political influence integral to their titles they were quite separate from the peerage and never had seats in House of Lords baronet's as distinct from barons are neither members of the peerage nor of the night age these titles are conferred by the crown for life only they constitute an entirely separate dignity of their own the baronetage as holders of a hereditary dignity their place in the table of general precedence is below the sons of Lords of Appeal in ordinary judges who are always balanced and above Knights of the Garter in the past but the a-artie was the favoured abbreviation to follow the name of a baronet on an envelope or on a list of names and this may still be used if desired however capital B common T is now more commonly used the a'ready tarry order of baronet's in england was instituted by letters patent by King James the first on the 22nd of may 16 11 for the settlement of Ireland he offered the dignity to two hundred gentleman of good birth with a clear estate of a thousand pounds annually on condition that each should pay into the Kings Exchequer in a three equal instalments a sum equivalent to three years paid to 30 soldiers V baronetage of Ireland was instituted on the 30th of September 16 11 and the baronetage of Scotland or Nova Scotia on the 28th of May 1625 for the establishment of the plantation of Nova Scotia after the union of England of Scotland in 1707 no further baronet's of England or Scotland were created the style being changed to baronet of Great Britain with the Union Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 all baronet subsequently created the style of the United Kingdom the creation of baronet's is lapsed in 1964 in 1990 the Conservative government announced that this honor would be given to Denis Thatcher has been a moderate fashion but there had been no further creations the official role of the baronetage is the former list where the baronetcy creations and successions are recorded as evidence of their rank and status it was instituted by royal warrant of King Edward the seventh dated the 8th of February 1910 under the terms of a further royal warrant dated the 10th of March 1922 anyone claiming a baronetcy may apply to be entered on the road from 1999 to 2006 the role of the baronetage was kept at the Home Office but it is now kept at the Ministry of Justice by the Registrar of the parentage the vast majority of baronet's is may descend in the male line only but there are a few exceptions all Scottish that may descend to heirs general ceremonial robes Dukes marquesses and Earl's received ceremonial robes of state in the late 15th century by counts in the 16th century and Baron's in the 17th century in the late 17th century the robes that peers wore at coronations were standardized crimson velvet cloaks reached to the feet extending slightly to trail on the ground at the back with an open front lined and edged with ermine pairs only where Coronets at coronations the coronet is a silver gilt circlet with a crimson silk genoa velvet lining a gold tassel and a band of a mine around the base the rank of peer is indicated by the form of a coronet he or she wears at a coronation a Dukes coronet is a circlet or silver gilt originally gold and as eight strawberry leaves the Marcus's coronet is a circlet of silver gilt with four strawberry leaves alternating with four silver balls that are slightly raised at points from the rim of the coronet and earth coronet is a silver gilt circlet with eight strawberry leaves alternating with eight silver balls that are slightly raised on points or spikes from the rim of the coronet a von count coronet has 16 silver balls on the rim of the Coronet imbalance coronet has befits the lowest rank if the plainest design with just six silver balls the knight edge is the collective term for Knights bachelor and knights and dames of the orders of chivalry knights and dames or titles conferred by the crown and are for life only a knight may use the title sir before his name example sir John Smith and a dame may use the title Dame before her name example Dame Mary Jones records or these honors are held at the central Chancery of the orders of knighthood sin James's in London today there are in the region of approximately 3000 living knights and dames the Queen normally calls 14 investitures every year six during February to March two in July and six between October and December if the Queen is abroad another senior member of the royal family will deputize the organisation of an investiture lies with the Lord Chamberlain's office the ceremony takes place in the ballroom of Buckingham Palace at each investiture approximately a hundred and thirty-five people receive their orders a small number of which will be knighthoods and Dame would and honor may be youth from the moment it has been announced in the press there is no need to wait until the recipient has received the accolade or has been invested at an investiture the person receiving the honour is announced by the Lord Chamberlain standing on the sovereigns right the Lord Chamberlain reads out the name of the recipient and the reason for the award if the honour to be conferred is a knighthood the recipient meals meals with his right me upon the investitures - and the Queen dubs him with the investiture sword but does not say rise Sir John he then stands to the left of the stool and is invested with the in signature on the appropriate order of knighthood a knight of an order of chivalry receive a star pinned on the left side of the coat and a badge worn on a ride and or at the neck a knight bachelor receives only a badge dames do not receive the example they are not ceremoniously dubbed the secretary of the central Chancery of the orders of knighthood is responsible for placing the correct decoration on a cushion held by a senior member of the household for the Queen to present to the lady in question foreign citizens who are accorded honorary knighthood do not receive the accolade nor is the prefix sir borne by honoré knights this also applies to clerics of the Church of England whose wives do not use the style of lady but are entitled to the president's usually accorded to the wives of knights courtesy titles a courtesy title is a title such as Lord lady or the honourable which is usually borne by the sons daughters daughters-in-law brothers sisters and sisters-in-law of a peer the son and heir apparent of a Duke marquest or earl may use one of his father's peerage titles by courtesy providing it is often lesser grade than that used by his father the younger son of a Duke or marquest has the courtesy title of Lord before therefore name and surname the younger sons of an earl and all sons of a vie count or baron and daughters of a vie count or baron have the courtesy style of the honourable before therefore name and surname the daughters of a Duke marquest or earl as the courtesy title of lady before therefore name and surname appears son and daughters who are legitimized under the legitimacy Act of 1926 as amended by the act of 1959 are now under the Earl shows warrant accorded the same courtesy styles as the legitimate younger children of peers though they have no right of succession to the peerage except under certain circumstances in Scotland or precedents from it courtesy Styles may continue to be borne by the children of peers who have disclaimed their parish children adopted into a family do not acquire rights of succession to a title and children adopted out of a family do not lose their rights an Earl marshals warrant dated 32 May 2004 decreed that the adopted children of peers should be accorded their styles and courtesy titles as our proper to the younger children of peers but without right of succession to the peerage thus for example the adopted son of the marquis of ely is now known as lord andrew tottingham which is the style for the younger son of a mock rest rather than a Vikon Loftus which is the subsidiary title for that peerage here is an example or subsidiary titles being used the Earl of Wessex has two children my count Salome and lady Louise orders of precedence in the United Kingdom the order of precedence in the United Kingdom is the sequential hierarchy of peers of the realm Offices of state senior members of the clergy holders the various orders of chivalry and other patterns in the three legal jurisdictions within the United Kingdom England and Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland the order of precedence is determined by various methods the precedent Act which technically applies only to determine seating in the House of Lords chamber and the act of union with Scotland in Ireland generally set precedence for members of the nobility the statutes of the various orders of chivalry set precedents for their members in other cases precedents may be decided by the sovereigns order by a royal warrant of precedence by letters patent by acts of parliament or by custom one may acquire precedence for various reasons firstly one may be an office holder secondly one may be of a particular degree such as Duke thirdly in the case of a woman one may be the wife of a title holder note that wives acquires precedence due to their husbands but husbands do not gain any special precedence due to their wives finally one may be the son or daughter of a title holder one does not gain precedence of the child or a lady unless that lady is a Paris you know older right furthermore if a daughter of a peer man is a commoner then she retains the precedence as a daughter of a pair however if she marries appear then her precedence is based on her husband's status and not on her father's the king or queen of the United Kingdom as the sovereign is always first in the order of precedence a king is followed by the queen consort the first in the order of precedence for women the reverse however is not always true for Queen regnant there is no established law of precedence for a Prince Consort so he is usually especially granted precedence above all are the male's by letters patent or on the other hand they rank lower than the heir apparent or the heir presumptive even if the air is his own son in England and Wales the Archbishop of Canterbury is the highest in precedence following the royal family then come assuming the post of Lord High Stuart is vacant as it usually has been since 1421 the Lord Chancellor the Archbishop of York in the Archbishop of Wales next come the Prime Minister as the First Lord of the Treasury the Lord president of the Privy Council the Speaker of the House of Commons the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords since July 2006 the president of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since October of 2009 the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales since November of 2007 and the Lord privy seal the precedence of the Lord great Chamberlain the Earl marshal the Lord Stuart and the Lord Chamberlain are determined by the rank and class of the peerage of the holders of such offices in Scotland the keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and the keeper of the Privy seal of Scotland if there's rank after the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords if not so then they rank after the youngest sons of Jukes the hereditary High constable of scotland and the master of the household in scotland rank above dukes if the keepers of the seers are peers than the keepers proceed the high constable and monster the ranks appears are as follows duke and duchess marcus and modulus Earl and Countess of I count and by countess Baron and Baroness together with Scottish Lord and Lady of and within their respective ranks the rank of pairs correspond to the age of the creation of their peerages but the peerage of England pre 1707 takes precedence over the parish of Scotland pre 1707 together taking precedence over the peerage of Great Britain 1707 to 1801 together there were the pre Union peerage of Ireland pre 1801 and together they all take precedence over either the senior period of the United Kingdom first 1801 of a junior Pels - Union peerage of Ireland 1801 to 1922 the archbishop of canterbury primate of all england is the most senior person outside the royalty and after the lord chancellor immediately followed by the Archbishop of York primate of England and immediately followed by the Archbishop of Wales primates Archbishop's and bishops of the Church of England in England and the Church in Wales rank immediately above peers first become the bishops of London and Durham followed by the Bishop of Winchester followed by other docm bishops in order of seniority and then the suffragan bishops in order of seniority the two highest orders of chivalry in England in Wales and in Scotland are the orders of the Garter and the tittle respectively Knights of the Order of the Garter precede baronet's after the baronet come the members of all the other orders of chivalry in the following order of their ranks nights or Dame Grand Cross night or Dame commander commander or companion lieutenant or officer and member for individual members which with equivalent ranks but are different orders precedence is accorded based on the seniority of the orders of chivalry the order of the bath the order of st. Michael and st. George the Royal Victorian order and the Order of the British Empire for equivalent ranks and orders there's appointed earlier proceed there is appointed later Knight bachelor come after Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire wives of knights of the garter Knights of thistle 19th Grand Cross Knights commanders and commanders all companions receive precedence based on their husband's positions wives of individuals of a certain rank following precedence of the female herders of the same rank thus why use of a knight grand cross follows dames Grand Cross wives of baronet's go immediately above the dames Grand Cross but our below though not immediately below ladies and wives of knights of the garter and thistle and st. Patrick baronet widows for the rules similar to Dowager piracies and we do of a previous baron it comes immediately before the wife of the present baronet hopefully you learned something the bottom line is the sovereign is always the last to arrive and the first to leave accepted at a wedding once the sovereign arrives the ceremony can begin you

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