They can't use the king title because it is only given to males who inherit the throne, according to BBC News.
Therefore, the couple's eldest son, Charles, Prince of Wales, will receive the king title when he assumes the position. Prince William, Prince Charles' son and the queen's grandson, is next in line for the king title, followed by his eldest son, Prince George. Giving Prince Philip his title isn't the only unique naming decision made by the queen. In , Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip decided to distinguish themselves from past royals, who did not use last names.
They started using a hyphenated surname: Mountbatten-Windsor , Mountbatten coming from Prince Phillip's maternal grandparents. So, the queen's children and grandchildren can use Mountbatten-Windsor as a surname — when they need to.
Elizabeth and Philip had two more children, Andrew born and Edward born In , Charles was formally invested as the Prince of Wales , marking his coming of age and the beginning of what would be a long period as king-in-waiting. Always a vigorous traveler, she kept a punishing schedule to mark the occasion, traveling some 56, miles around the Commonwealth, including the island nations Fiji and Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, the British West Indies and Canada.
Though the couple soon welcomed two sons, William and Harry , their marriage quickly imploded, causing considerable public embarrassment for the queen and the entire royal family.
A fire also broke out at Windsor Castle that same year, and amid public outcry over the use of government funds to restore the royal residence, Queen Elizabeth agreed to pay taxes on her private income. This was not required by British law, though some earlier monarchs had done so as well. In another modernizing measure, she also agreed to open the state rooms at Buckingham Palace to the public for an admission fee when she was not in residence. After Charles and Diana divorced in , Diana remained incredibly popular with the British and international public.
In her seventh decade on the throne, Queen Elizabeth presided over the pomp and circumstance of another royal wedding at Westminster Abbey, that of Prince William to Catherine Middleton in April That same year, the royal couple celebrated 70 years of marriage, making theirs the longest union in the history of the British monarchy. In , the couple had a son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor. At the center of it all is the queen herself, who celebrated her own 90th birthday in but shows few signs of slowing down.
She continues to follow much the same schedule as she has for the entirety of her reign, including official work, public appearances and plenty of time outside with her beloved dogs and horses. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. Princess Diana—who married into British royalty, only to later be divorced from it—devoted herself to charitable causes and became a global icon before dying in a car accident in Paris in The crown can be a heavy burden to bear, and the s and 70s were challenging decades for Queen Elizabeth.
Antony Armstrong-Jones, a. Armstrong-Jones was a fashion and society photographer when he met Margaret in , and they married two years later in Armstrong-Jones married his second wife Lucy Mary Lindsay-Hogg that same year, and they remained married until Armstrong-Jones died in at the age of He was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, but Philip and his family were exiled from Greece during his childhood , and so he studied in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom before eventually serving in the British Royal Navy.
He married then-Princess Elizabeth in , during the reign of her father George VI, and the couple have four children together.
When he passed away in at the age of 99, Prince Philip was not only the the longest-serving consort of a reigning British Monarch , but also the longest-living male British royal in history. The eldest child of Queen Elizabeth, and the heir apparent to the British throne, Prince Charles was born in in Buckingham Palace. He went on to be educated at a number of institutions including Cheam and Gordonstoun Schools which his father attended before him and Cambridge University, before serving in the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
Charles later married his second wife Camilla Parker Bowles in Having held the title since , Charles is the longest-serving Prince of Wales in history. He is also the first heir to the British throne ever to have a university degree.
She met Prince Charles when she was 16, and married him in July of , becoming the Princess of Wales. Charles and Diana had two children together, Prince William and Prince Harry before divorcing in One year later, she tragically died in a car accident in Paris on August 31, She is also the granddaughter of nobleman Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe.
In , Camilla married her first husband Andrew Parker Bowles, and the couple had two children, Tom and Lisa , before divorcing in The second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Princess Anne is one of the hardest working members of the royal family.
She is also an accomplished equestrian, and was even the first British royal to compete in the Olympic Games. In , Anne married Captain Mark Phillips, and the couple had two children together before divorcing in Princess Anne met her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, at the Olympics in Munich, where he was part of the British equestrian team and also competed individually.
The couple married in , and had two children together before divorcing in The second husband of Anne, Princess Royal. After her divorce from Captain Mark Phillips in , Anne and Timothy married, and although he received no title upon the marriage, in he was appointed as a personal aide-de-camp to the Queen. In he married Autumn Kelly, and the couple have two children together: Savannah Phillips and Isla Phillips He and Autumn have since separated.
That said, she does not hold a royal title. Like her mother, Zara is an accomplished equestrian and Olympian, winning a silver medal at the Olympics in London, and she has been appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire for her services to equestrianism.
Zara married Mike Tindall , a former rugby player, in , and the couple have three children together: Mia Tindall , Lena Tindall , and Lucas Tindall The third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Prince Andrew served in the Royal Navy for many years, including during the Falklands War in , and holds the ranks of commander and vice admiral. He married Sarah Ferguson in , and the couple had two daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, before divorcing in In , he stepped back from his working royal duties following enormous public criticism over his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The couple married at Westminster Abbey later that year, and went on to have two daughters. Sarah and Andrew announced their separation in , and were divorced four years later in , though by all accounts they still have an amicable relationship. Princess Beatrice is the oldest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, and holds a place in the British line of succession even though she is not a working royal. The princess has a career outside the Palace, and currently works for a New York-based artificial intelligence company, but she also often attends major family events like Trooping the Colour and the annual Christmas church services.
In July of , she married her boyfriend Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in a private wedding ceremony in Windsor, and became stepmother to his son, Wolfie. He has a young son, Wolfie, from a previous relationship—making Beatrice an instant stepmother. The youngest child and third son of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Edward attended Cambridge University and later joined the Royal Marines, but dropped out after four months.
In he married Sophie Rhys-Jones , and the couple have two children. Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones met Prince Edward while she was working in radio, and the couple dated for six years before marrying in While she previously had a career in public relations, Sophie is now a full-time working royal like her husband, and frequently supports the Queen, her mother-in-law, in her royal duties.
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