She’s a commoner who married a British noble. Is the term royal reserved specifically for certain people or can it cover any of the nobility? Is “minor” in the eye of the beholder or does it have a specific meaning? I don’t know what the answer is. To me she would fit the definition of minor royal but admittedly it’s my own personal definition.
Yes I do realize it is due to covid and there would be many more people there if it weren’t for the pandemic. It’s good to see they are setting the example and not finding an exception to the rule.
“Royal” to me denotes someone who is a member of the Royal Family or closely related to them, not merely a member of the nobility who have little or no genealogical connection to the monarch. For example, Peter Philips, who has no title at all, probably qualifies as “minor royal” because his grandma is the Queen and he is regularly in attendance at family events for the royals. Countess Mountbatten’s husband is the great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, but that’s getting pretty distant from the throne. Lord Taylor of Warwick is a member of the House of Lords, but as the son of Jamaican immigrants, he is rather farther from the throne, and I would not call him “royal” at all.
My father died 3 days after my stepmother. In most states ;if people die within 5 days of each other they are legally said to have died together. Don’t know if that applies in the UK or other countries. In my parents case it did not matter who died first because of the way they wrote their wills.
In the UK the issue of who inherits when two people die at the same time is governed by section 184 of the Law of Property Act 1925. This Act specifies that when two people die together and it is not possible to determine who died first, the younger is presumed to have survived the elder.
Peter Philips, who has no title at all, probably qualifies as “minor royal” because his grandma is the Queen and he is regularly in attendance at family events for the royals.
I make a mental distinction between “royal” (i.e., a blood relative of the monarch, who may well be close in terms of family get-togethers, whether or not these may be semi-public occasions, but may have their own careers, like the Phillipses) and “Royal” (i.e., taking on their share of public duties on behalf of the monarch, with some support from the funding for that - a status which has been increasingly limited to fewer people). Similar arrangements apply in the continental monarchies, but seem to be more formalised.
In either case, other people with inherited aristocratic titles or equivalent titles of honour don’t count as royal in any sense.
I saw the photo of the Queen sitting all by herself, masked, in the church. How sad that this idiotic plague meant she didn’t even have anyone beside her.
They pointed out on CNN that when the Queen dies, her body will be entombed with the rest of her family. Then, Philip’s body will join hers. Are there already designated spots for Charles (and Camilla?), William and Kate, George, etc?
