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Originally Posted by pip08456
Legally she will never be Queen. If/when Charles dies the Monarchy will be passed on to William. She won't even be referred to as Kings Mother.
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She is Queen, because that is the correct style and title for a King’s wife. Constitutionally she is Queen Consort, not Queen Regnant (as Elizabeth II was) but it is not typical to always say ‘Consort’.
Phil the Greek was a Prince because in noble rank a King outranks a Queen, and as Elizabeth inherited the British Crown he could never be made King without also being made co-regent. That would have been unacceptable because he had no claim to the British throne. The only time that has ever been done is in 1689 when Parliament contrived to have James II/VII deposed by declaring he’d abandoned the Kingdom and installed his daughter in his place as Mary II and her Husband William of Orange as William III of England (The Scottish parliament cooperated and also declared him William II of Scotland otherwise the Union of the Crowns would have ended there and then, less than 90 years after it began).
Though William was in the line of succession as a grandson of Charles II, Mary’s claim was stronger as James’ daughter. So it suited Parliament to crown them both jointly because they got the most legitimate heir in Mary and a massive Protestant and enemy of France in William.