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The Queen’s husband, The Duke of Edinburgh, has left hospital in Scotland after receiving six days of treatment for a bladder infection.
Prince Philip, 91, smiled as he shook the hands of staff members at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary before being driven away in a chauffeured Range Rover.
Doctors at the weekend advised the Duke to get rest and not accept any visitors.
Read the full story at ITV News
The Queen traditionally spends three months of the summer in Scotland. This year, she arrived at her Balmoral home for some rest and relaxation after a hectic few months of engagements to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee and then the Olympics.
Two months ago, Prince Philip was taken to hospital with a bladder infection, overshadowing four days of celebrations for the queen's 60th year on the British throne.
In December last year, Philip had an operation to clear a blocked heart artery and spent Christmas in hospital.
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Queen's husband, Not a king?
The spouse of a monarch is the consort. If a male is the Monarch, his spouse is the Queen Consort. If the monarch is female, she is The Queen and her spouse would be, at best a Prince......unless the female monarch chooses to have her spouse crowned as co-monarch as in the case of Mary Tudor (Mary I) and King Philip of Spain. But then he was already a King in his own right and it took special legislation which stipulated that if Mary should die before him (which she did) the crown would not pass to him but to Mary's designated heir (Elizabeth I). Protestant or Catholic, the British did not want a Spanish king ruling England. If Henry VIII had not barred his sister Margaret and her descendants form the throne (she married the King of Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots was her granddaughter) AND had Elizabeth been barred on the question of her legitimacy, the the throne would have passed to Frances Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, who was the daughter of Henry VII's other sister, Mary, who took as her 2nd husband, Henry's best bud, Charles Brandon. Frances relinquished her rights to the throne in favor of her daughter Jane Grey...and we all know how that worked out. Had it all followed this chain of inheritance, England would have had a slew of female monarchs with consorts who, unless special legislation allowed it, would not have been give the title of King/Co-Mpnarch.
I find it hysterical that the story mentioned the 'UK Queens husband' and didn't call him the King. I understand that the Queens have ruled the UK or been 'face of the royal family' for century's, but in every country with an education above grade 6 its thought that a Queen gets married and her husband becomes King, even if he has no power. But I guess the royal family of England is that worried about small details that they don't have Kings no matter who they are married to, only Queens, and.........their consorts??? How childish that seems.
Technically both "the Queen's Husband" and "King" are incorrect. He is titled "Prince" Philip. This is because under royal law; a king, the male heir, is generally considered to be the ruling monarch over a queen, because in the order of Royal and Noble titles, King and Emperor are the highest possible titles. This is also done to prevent anyone who may not know who the ruling monarch is, from misunderstanding who is reigning.
He is not titled King because a male does not take the title of the female. When a pricness marries a Duke, she becomes a Duchess, her husband does not become a prince. Likewise Elizabeth is Queen, but her husband does not take the matching title of King. If, like Elizabeth's father, the ruler is a king, his wife takes the matching title of Queen, Queen consort actually.
Sorry Kevin, but you are wrong...The husbands of the Queens in Belgium and the Netherlands (who were the Monarchs) were not styled king...they were all Princes. It is the same everywhere, unless a Queen Regnant marries a man who is already a King in his own right (Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain or Mary Tudor of England and Philip of Spain). If Elizabeth I had married, say, her favorite Robert Dudley,her husband would have been no higher than Prince, unless she wanted him crowned King and co-ruler, which would have taken special legislation.
Technically both "the Queen's Husband" and "King" are incorrect stylings. His title is "Prince" Philip, this is due to the idea that under royal laws and customs, there is no greater power than a "King" or "Emperor", sexist as that sounds. This is also done because commoners or normal people wouldn't be able to easily distinguish whether it was the King or Queen that was the ruling monarch based on the perception of the King being equal or more powerful.
Not to be rude, but it looks like he was in a boxing match, both his eyes are bruised.
It is my understanding that Prince Phillip married into the royal family after Elizabeth became the Monarch. Thus, he is not in the line of succession, cannot be king, and never will be king.
Sorry Ian, but Philip and Elizabeth were married before she succeeded to the throne in 1952. They were The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, at title given to them by her father George VI the day they were married.
Her initials got the "R" as in "ER." So she's the boss.
Prince Phillip is in the line of Succession in his own right, without being married to the queen. Even, like Queen Victoria, if he had married after she became queen, he would still be a prince, not a king.
Chris, to the best of knowledge, Phillip is not in the direct line of succession. It's true that he and the Queen are distant cousins, but Philip was a son of a younger brother (Prince Andrew of Greece) of the King of the Hellenes (Greece) who was a direct descendant of the Danish royal family, with other direct ties to Germany and Russia. The Queen's own children and grandchildren are all next in the direct line of succession. And then there are all of her first cousins (except Prince Michael of Kent, who gave up his rights to marry a divorced Roman Catholic) and all of their children and grandchildren. The law of primogeniture ends with William. The first born child of his marriage to Catherine, regardless of gender will succeed him to the throne.
When Philip moved to England before the start of WWII, he was taken in by his uncle, Lord Mountbatten (Philip's mother, Princess Andrew, was Mountabtten's sister), he relinquished his Greek titles and styles and became a naturalized British citizen, and took his uncle's surname, Mountbatten. He entered the Royal Navy as Philip Mountbatten. When he became engaged to Elizabeth, her father had legal papers (called letters patent) drawn up, elevating him to the level of Prince of the United Kingdom. Upon his marriage to Elizabeth, the king created him Duke of Edinburgh and he and his wife were The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh until her accession to the throne, whereby she became HM The Queen (Regnant) and he remained HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh......and that led to the whole question of the Royal surname/dynasty...but that is a story for another day. Cheers!
He is in the line, not direct line though. The queen' chidlren, grand children, great grand chidlren if any. Then it goes to her father's siblings children and so on. When you get back to Victoria, Philip falls in line through Victoria's daughter Alice. Although this is not considered the direct line, he is still in the line of succession as is the King of Norway and the King of Spain, though he is catholic, he would be skipped.
YE GOD he needs make-up looks like walking death.
The man is 91 years old and his health is failing; what would you expect him to look like.
Another little quirk in the titles and styles of the British Monarchy: The title Prince of Wales is reserved for a male who is first in line for the the throne, aka the Heir Presumptive. There is no precedence for a female who is first in line being given this title/style. Plus, she is called the Heiress Presumptive....this is in case (however wildly unlikely) the Monarch has a son born even 1 second before he dies (or if his Queen Consort it pregnant at the time of his death which means the female cannot be proclaimed Queen Consort until the baby is born. If it is a boy, it automatically jumps to the head of the line and becomes King). How doing away with the Law of Primogeniture affects the title/style of Prince of Wales is something I don't know. Perhaps it may be abandoned.
Slight correction. The title of Prince of Wales is granted to the Heir Apparent, not the Heir Presumptive. The title is only given to an heir who cannot be displaced in succession. The title is not granted to the heir presumptive, regardless of gender.
For example, should Prince William be crowned King before giving birth to a child, Prince Henry, as the heir presumptive, would not be granted the title of Prince of Wales. This is because Prince Henry would only succeed to the throne if Prince William died without issue. Once Prince William had a child, Prince Henry would cease to be heir presumptive, and that child would become heir apparent or heiress presumptive.
With the Law of Primogeniture, a female will never be the heiress apparent; she will always be the heiress presumptive. This is because, as you pointed out, regardless of how unlikely it might be, should a male child be conceived, he would automatically become the heir apparent.
The Law of Primogeniture ends with William, his first child, if a daughter, can be the heiress apparent.