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But the Wessex's children are still "Viscount Severn" and "The Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor", so they're actually doing it one step lower. My question is, no matter what the parents decide today or tomorrow, won't Archie automatically become a Prince when the Prince of Wales becomes King, as...

Prince George Valdemar of Denmark I am wondering about Prince George Valdemar Carl Axel of Denmark (1920-1986), a great-grandson of King Christian IX. In 1950, he married a minor British noble and divorcée, Anne, Viscountess Anson, née Bowes-Lyon, a niece of Queen Elizabeth of the UK (later the...

He probably wouldn't, but there is precedence of a sort. Alexander Duff (1849-1912) (who incidentally was a great-grandson of King William IV through his illegitimate daughter) became 6th Earl of Fife upon the death of his father in 1879. He married Louise, the eldest daughter of the future...

Right, I never intended it to be a controversy in the question that Andrew was a foreigner. (It never occurred to me that a foreigner couldn't inherit a peerage, although in retrospect it is obvious that the UK wouldn't want foreigners in its House of Lords!) I just wondered if the title "Duke...

Titles merging into the crown - permanent? The best way I can think of to ask this question is to presume some deaths to have occurred in the past; hopefully this doesn't offend! On 20 Nov 1947, just before he married the future Elizabeth II (then HRH The Princess Elizabeth, heiress...

Thanks! I wonder if Prince Andrew will one day be given a new title, perhaps a Marquessate, with special remainder to his daughters... (I guess the other, probably better, option would be to give titles to Beatrice and Eugenie directly if/when they get married. Or to their husbands, but I think...

The Duke of York's titles When Prince Andrew was created Duke of York on his wedding day, he was also created Earl of Inverness and Baron Killyleagh (as Royal Duchies always have two subsidiary titles named for places in other countries within the UK, in this case Inverness in Scotland and...

Until 1801, the Kings and Queens of Great Britain, and before 1707 the Kings and Queens of England (Scotland, Ireland) also claimed to be Kings or Queens of France. (And the French fleurs-de-lis were part of the royal coat of arms.) I have never seen an alternate list of Kings and Queens of...