Questions About Titles

[Australian]

What title is higher? Lady or Dame?

[Australian]

Also, when someone has the title of Baroness, do they get bowed to?

[elizahawthorne]

Dame is a title for:

1. <LI type=a>A woman holding a nonhereditary title conferred by a sovereign in recognition of personal merit or service to the country. <LI type=a>The wife or widow of a knight.
2. Used as the title for such a woman.

[elizahawthorne]

1. Lady is a general feminine title of nobility and other rank, specifically:<LI type=a>Used as the title for the wife or widow of a knight or baronet. <LI type=a>Used as a form of address for a marchioness, countess, viscountess, baroness, or baronetess. <LI type=a>Used as a form of address for the wife or widow of a baron. <LI type=a>Used as a courtesy title for the daughter of a duke, a marquis, or an earl.
2. Used as a courtesy title for the wife of a younger son of a duke or marquis.

[Warren]

Originally Posted by Australian

When someone has the title of Baroness, do they get bowed to?

As far as I know, in the UK the only people who are bowed or curtsied to are Royalty.
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[Australian]

Does the title get passed down to the children? Say someone is made Lady or Lord whatever, do their children inherit it?

[GrandDuchess]

Originally Posted by Australian

Does the title get passed down to the children? Say someone is made Lady or Lord whatever, do their children inherit it?

The British nobility and peerage system is a whole science of its own. So therefore it might be a bit hard to explain shortly to questions posted here...

"Lady" and "Lord" is not a title, it's merely a prefix for people in some families where the head holds a peerage.

[Australian]

Is there such a title called "Your Elegance" i have heard this been said before, "Her Elegance".

[Australian]

I seem to remember that some King once gave a man who did remarkable things for some country, the title of His Highness. Has anyone ever heard of that happening? He is a commoner and they gave him the title of His Highness, not His ROYAL Highness.

[KikkiB]

Just thinking about marrying royals and recieving titles. Meaning, who got the highest title in their country on their day of marriage, i.e. queen, princess, grand duchess and so on. (if this discussion already has a tread, please do close this one - I haven't got full overview of all the treads.)

I know that Queen Silvia got her title when marrying King Carl Gustav, so she didn't "graduate" from princess school. And Grace Kelly got the princess title when marrying Prince Rainier.

Others? Not just "recent" marriages, but historically. What about Queen Wilhelminas husband, did he get the Prince Concort title when married?

[sara1981]

im not sure about Diana,Princess of Wales? Sophie,Countess of Wessex? Sarah,Duchess of York? and Camilla,Duchess of Cornwall? but i understand Princess Anne is daughter of HM Queen II

mostly royals womans who got titles when got married to Crown Prince,Prince,Grand Duch,Earl

I think Princess Diana took titles as Princess of Wales when she got married to Prince Charles in 1981 many people loves her very much for more 15 years.But she is daughter of Earl 8th Charles Spencer but Diana still as Lady Diana Spencer before she enter Royal Family.

Sophie did took titles also when she got married to Prince Edward in 1999 and she had Royal titles and her parents dont have titles as Sir,Madam,Earl.

Sarah did took titles also when she got married to Prince Andrew in 1986 im not sure her parents had titles?

Camilla did took titles when she got married to Prince Charles this month April 9th but she didnt taking titles of Princess of Wales because more low-profiles of Diana,Princess of Wales's titles but she known as Duchess of Cornwall that it.She and Charles been had affair,mistress,companion for more over 30's years but her kids dont have titles! her ex-husband dont have titles also.

Sara Boyce

[florawindsor]

usu when a woman marries someone royal, she takes the femine form of her husband's title.
but when a non-royal man marries a royal woman,it's different. Prince Philip was made a Duke before his wedding, and made a Prince in the 1950s. but he doesn't get the title of Prince Consort, as far as I know. Prince Albert get the title of Prince Consort in 1857 . i guess the title of PC is some kind of recognition of his hard work or sth

[ksenia]

HRH The Prince of Wales's wife is the Princess of Wales. She just chooses to be known as the Duchess of Cornwall which is one of his lesser titles out of courtesy for those who feel strongly about the prince's first wife. I'm sure if you wrote Clarence House they would give you an official rendering of her titles.

[popsicle]

i thought Phillip was a prince of greece before he married QEII

[ksenia]

he was a prince of greece but there is some confusion whether or not he gave those titles up when he became a british citizen

[florawindsor]

i think Prince Philip did give up his Greece Prince title ,cos when he bacame a british citizen, he was Lieut. Mountbatten. also, when u abandon your nationality, isn't it only natural you give up all the titles you have in that country?
afterall there was no monarchy in greece now, so it's of no importance whether he gave it up or not,imho

[KikkiB]

I found this on Encyclopedia Britannica online;

Philip, duke of Edinburgh
born June 10, 1921, Corfu, Greece
in full Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh, earl of Merioneth and baron Greenwich, also called Philip Mountbatten, original name Philip, prince of Greece and Denmark husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

[Duchess]

Diana was indeed the daughter of the Earl Spencer but it was Johnnie not Charles. Charles is her brother and the current Earl, which her inherited on the death of his father. The other ladies had no titles at the time of their marriages as far as I know.

[Nathalian]

Can, for example, a Prince marry a CP Princess and become a King? Like Fernando of Aragón and Isabel of Castela? If it was created a monarchy and the woman is becoming a Queen, her husband would become a King?

[KikkiB]