At present, Camilla is being referred to as Queen Consort - but other consorts have simply been known as 'the Queen'
As the wife of the King, Camilla is technically Her Majesty The Queen and entitled to be known as “The Queen”, but briefings and statements from Buckingham Palace have referred to her as “Queen Consort”.
A spokesman for the King did not rule out a shift when asked whether Camilla would forever be known as Queen Consort, or whether she could become known simply as the Queen.“I think those who saw the Queen Consort yesterday movingly meeting people outside Buckingham Palace know how moved she is at the moment and that’s her focus so that will be a question for the future.”
Most people in the UK will be very used to the title of the Queen being used exclusively by the monarch, after the 70-year long reign of Elizabeth II – who,By contrast, the female spouse of a King is a ‘Queen Consort’ – denoting that her title comes through marriage, rather than being empowered in her own right.Before the death of her husband George VI in 1952, the nation’s last female consort – known to most as the Queen Mother – was known simply as Queen Elizabeth.
When Charles and Camilla married in 2005, it was thought that she would never be permitted to assume the title of Queen, and would instead be known as Princess Consort when Charles became King – owing in large part to public distaste over their affair during Charles’s marriage to Princess Diana.
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