# Princess Anne, Princess Royal?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-anne-princess-royal/790497>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [July 4, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-anne-princess-royal/790497 "2017-07-04T16:53:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-anne-princess-royal/790497/21 "2019-02-09T04:52:52Z")

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> [@bump](#):
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> Isn’t the Queen also the Duke of Normandy as well?

The title is traditionally used in the Channel Islands, but it’s informal, like the titles of Duke of Lancaster and Lord of Mann. (The Crown possesses the Duchy of Lancaster (the estate of the Duke of Lancaster), but it does so specifically because the duchy defaults to the Crown in the absence of a duke.)

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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-anne-princess-royal/790497/22 "2019-02-09T14:53:27Z")

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Americans have always been a bit fuzzy on this whole [title](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qtgm5g5Gyo) business anyway.

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**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-anne-princess-royal/790497/23 "2019-02-10T04:01:29Z")

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Well, we did have an [Emperor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton) at one point…

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-anne-princess-royal/790497/24 "2019-02-10T04:40:58Z")

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Watch out for Her Majesty’s moves: [https://me.me/i/she-can-move-in-any-direction-8ffbe3daba8e4415a28643abe00f5a0a](https://me.me/i/she-can-move-in-any-direction-8ffbe3daba8e4415a28643abe00f5a0a)

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-anne-princess-royal/790497/25 "2019-02-10T14:51:17Z")

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In the historical footnote department on women with masculine titles:

[Mary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Hungary) was crowned King of Hungary in 1382.

[Jadwiga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadwiga_of_Poland) was crowned King of Poland in 1384.

They were sisters.

(The titles were mostly for coronation and title claim reasons. E.g., Jadwiga got married and her husband gained the title “king”.)

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