But she wasn’t a Freeman.
Or if she was, Henry VIII was even hornier that we’ve been told.
She was done up ‘by lawful judgment of [her] Peers, [and] by the Law of the Land’. The charges against her may have been trumped up, but they were certainly more than ‘less popular than her husband’s first wife’.
Wiki says it’s unclear, but it’s possible that the Capets’ name share etymological roots with “decapitation” (in this context, it could mean “head” or “chief”, as in “Captain” or “Capital”)
Pretty standard for tabloids. They like shorthand nicknames. I don’t think anyone really thought that Wacko Jacko was his real name.
This is not just a royal thing, it’s a peerage thing. Peerage titles are often used where, for us mere mortals, surnames would be used.
For example, the current Earl of Pembroke is a bloke called William Herbert - “Herbert” is his surname. But if you moved in his social circle, and you wished to distinguish him in conversation from all the other Williams, you would call him “William Pembroke” (or simply “Pembroke”). He and his wife are the Earl and Countess of Pembroke or, less formally, “the Pembrokes”. Their son Reginald, however, is Reginald Herbert, not Reginald Pembroke. But when he succeed his father he, too, will become Pembroke.
While he is Harry to friends, co-workers and family, I am quite sure the British Army (and pretty much anyone else in any official capacity) uses his actual first name, which is Henry.
Ah, so they’ll just have to arrange a place for her in a hospital for treatment for alcoholism and mental illness. In “The Ruling Class”, Peter O’Toole’s character was tucked away in a “Home for Eccentric Gentlemen”.
Do members of the royal family have the right to legally change their name? Certainly, a royal changing their name would probably be highly political and unlikely, but would a descendant now carrying the name Windsor or Mountbatten-Windsor legally need special permission from the Queen, above and beyond the requirements for a regular British citizen to change their name?
Sure, but that was back in the days when they were just Princes and heirs to the Prince of Wales. Harry’s still styled Prince Henry of Wales, FYI.
Now that William’s been created Duke of Cambridge, he’s now “Cambridge” isn’t he? As in, Prince George would use the surname “Cambridge” on his military uniform if say… Elizabeth II lives another 25 years?
But… assuming she doesn’t live to 112, Charles will be King, and William will be Prince of Wales and(?) Duke of Cambridge, and George would use “Wales” on his uniform like everyone else.
A column dealing with something like this, and lots of side issues: What did Prince Andrew’s superiors in the Royal Navy call him?
My favorite fact from this is that his buddies just called him ‘H’, short for ‘His Royal Highness.’
If he’s been using Wales all along, is there any real reason that he should change it, especially since neither is actually his surname? It seems like both William and Harry do the best they can to function as normally as they can in their military positions, and changing the name they’re using there in response to a title change that only affects their “royal” life just doesn’t fit.
Yup. And the new generation doesn’t necessarily do those traditionally “proper” things that their parents did. They do crazy stuff like marry commoners and take care of their own children and I guess they don’t demand new name tags on their fatigues because they got a royal promotion.
Really, all it would do is force the Prince to get new nametapes put on all of his uniforms, and it just doesn’t seem fair to force such a needless expense on one of Britain’s young men in uniform, especially in such austere times.
But I wonder, maybe he should just get some sort of logo, like the Artist Formerly Known As Prince did, that he could have embroidered on all of his uniforms for easy recognition?
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Wait, changing/adding her title (or whatever the correct word is) to “Empress”–isn’t that sort of a huge deal?
Hell, if Napoleon hadn’t done it he would’ve had a Beethoven symphony named after him.
The Empress got added when the Crown took control of India in 1877. The last monarch to sign RI was QEII’s dad George VI.
Victoria adopted the title of “Empress of India” (and “Queen-Empress”) when the rule of India was taken over from the East India Company. It was properly approved by Parliament (Royal Titles Act 1876).
When she reigned in the late 1800s, Queen Victoria probably had a better claim to the title than any other person on Earth did. “The sun never sets on the British Empire” was not hyperbole until well into the 20th century.
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