# Charles and Camilla - would she be Queen?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 10, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-and-camilla-would-she-be-queen/289397 "2005-02-10T15:01:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-and-camilla-would-she-be-queen/289397/21 "2005-02-13T05:42:54Z")

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> [@dtilque](#):
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> If I count the generations correctly, Charles’s great-great-grandfather was Prince Albert.

Oops, I did miscount the generations. Charles’s great-great-grandfather was Edward VII.

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> I wonder if Charles is descended from Vickie/Albert by more than one line?

And some research on the net indicates that Prince Philip, Charles’s father, is descended from Queen Vickie via her daughter Alice.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-and-camilla-would-she-be-queen/289397/22 "2005-02-13T05:43:36Z")

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Yes. Queen Victoria is a great-great grandmother to both Prince Philip and the Queen. Philip’s grandfather, Louis Mountbattern, married one of Victoria’s granddaughters, according to [this site](http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page413.asp).

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-and-camilla-would-she-be-queen/289397/23 "2005-02-13T05:51:28Z")

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I’ve looked on Google News and found, first, that the pick-up line Camilla used on Charles was “My great-grandmother was your great-great-grandfather’s mistress so how about it?” Also, that great-great grandfather of his was Edward VII and her great grandmother was Alice Keppel.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-and-camilla-would-she-be-queen/289397/24 "2005-02-13T06:01:13Z")

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> [@Dewey Finn](#):
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> I’ve looked on Google News and found, first, that the pick-up line Camilla used on Charles was “My great-grandmother was your great-great-grandfather’s mistress so how about it?” Also, that great-great grandfather of his was Edward VII and her great grandmother was Alice Keppel.

Well, that’s one way to carry on a family tradition! :dubious:

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**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-and-camilla-would-she-be-queen/289397/25 "2005-02-13T06:06:07Z")

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In order for her not to be Queen an act of parliament would be needed, but only in the UK or in every commonwealth realm? And correct me if I’m but Queen Elizabeth II can deny her the title _Princess of Wales_ by letters patent. The rule about women automatically taking the female form of their husbands titles has been changed in the past (Her _Grace_ the Duchess of Windsor).

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