Not originally. He discontinued the use of his Greek and Danish titles upon his marriage, when he was made Duke of Edinburgh and His Royal Highness by the King, having been made Knight of the Garter a few days previously.
He was not given the title of Prince of the United Kingdom until 1957, five years after his marriage.
And he always was referred to as Duke of Edinburgh in his role as consort. The formal announcement was always “Her Majesty the Queen and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh”.
ISTM part of the matter is that in the Brit system “Prince(ss)” is something that designates the person’s standing in the family, but if you hold a specific title then that is what you are for official purposes – thus princes Andrew, Edward, and Harry, are the Duke of York, Earl of Wessex and Duke of Sussex in formal context.
The standard is that female consorts are “queens” by default. Male consorts OTOH are whatever the letters patent say they are but not kings.
Victoria’s Albert was first plain HRH Prince upon marrying her, and only years later officially “HRH Prince Consort” , as a way to give him a British styling higher in UK precedence than his birthright one as a Serene Highness Duke.
He wasn’t Prince Consort or Prince of Wales; he had no substantive title, other than the dukedom. The letters patent creating him a prince (in 1957) called it a “style and titular dignity.”
President Biden will attend Her Late Majesty’s funeral.
It’s the event of the year!
Well Anne Boleyn was made Marchioness of Pembroke while she was still Henry VIII’s mistress, but Camilla probably doesn’t want to follow in her footsteps.
I never doubted that Biden would attend as POTUS but I wonder just how large the US delegation will be. I remember John McCain’s funeral was attended by all of the previous presidents and some members of Congress. So might Carter, Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump (and wives) attend as well? And who else from the US?
I was just pointing out that Biden’s attendance was confirmed, as a point of information, as I had just learned about it.
The guy who was so bored, he fell asleep on the Queen?
In 1952, presidential travel abroad was still a novelty, and I’m not sure it would have been arranged at such short notice. Harry Truman only left the country five times, with his last trip being in 1947, and his only trip to Europe was for the Potsdam Conference.
Can the royal family(gently of course) let someone know they should NOT attend the funeral? You know, with all the talk of former presidents and all.
They can bring it up behind the scenes. Ultimately, though, they would defer to the government’s judgment; if the Foreign Office says that, for foreign poicy reasons, this or that person should or should not be present, the royal family would yield.
According to the BBC, it’s expected to be in Westminster Abbey, as the place where our monarchs are crowned. Closes the circle.
It will be a small private family affair in the vault of St George’s Chapel in Windsor. No guests or cameras.
We don’t yet know what form the service at St George’s will take. Everything is unprecedented. The forms of royal funerals have evolved for television and it has long been recognised that the Queen’s funeral will be very different from what was done in 1952.
The traditional form of a monarch’s funeral was that the only service would be at St George’s and that a full congregation would be invited. But other royal funerals on the largest scale during the Queen’s reign have created a different model - a big, public service in Westminster Abbey followed by a private burial elsewhere. That formula was basically set by Mountbatten’s funeral. The assumption was long that the Queen’s funeral would follow the form of that of her mother and that the burial at Windsor would be private. But Prince Philip’s funeral, although obviously a special case, has complicated things. That makes it not completely inconceivable that the service at St George’s will be broadcast, We’ll see. The arrangements for the Accession Council do show that a willingness to be bold in rethinking and adapting all the precedents.
As for President Biden’s attendance, it’s not too surprising. That Johnson did not attend Churchill’s funeral is generally accepted to have been a major blunder.
I don’t know about Canada but here in Aus they have said it will be sometime next year
Philip’s funeral was at St George’s, which is why we saw it there. We didn’t see the burial. We don’t ever see the burial. This will be no different. I think you’re confusing the funeral with the burial, which is the question I was responding to.
If I was in charge, the coins would be released the day of the coronation - just from a PR point of view.
And I expect the coronation will be late spring or summer. That’s when the weather is best, and you don’t want it to rain on your parade.
It can get weird with women who have a title from both their father and their husbands.
The late Queen was after her marriage and until accession Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh*. As far as I can tell, the Duchess title was the one used more often.
Conversely, he cousin Princess Alexandra, Lady Oligivly, is always called Princess Alexandra.
Her granddaughter, Princess Beatrice, Mrs. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, also.
*Which is the source of the answer to the trick question, who would have succeeded Edward VIII if he hadn’t abdicated and married Wallis. The Duchess of Edinburgh.
Why is Edward only an earl, yet his brother Andrew is a duke?
::cue The Duke of Earl::