King – man + woman is queen; but why?

Re:King – man + woman is queen; but why? by sandworm101 on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:14PM (#13347648)

And here i thought this was a statement about the strange rules of sucession in modern western monarchy. Riddle me this: why are women who marry kings made queens while men who marry queens are made only princes?

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Re:King – man + woman is queen; but why? by qbrass on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:39PM (#13347743)

Because, like a deck of cards, king trumps queen in the ranking of titles and they want to place the person who married into the family below the one who was born into it.

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Re:King – man + woman is queen; but why? by sandworm101 on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:46PM (#13347764)

Close, but i would say that "queen" covers two different jobs: being a female monarch and the older 'wife to the king'. Some queens are monarchs and some are only wife, with no right to rule on thier own (ie they are not daughter to any previous monarch). Kings are only ever kings by right.

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Re:King – man + woman is queen; but why? by true_religion on Sunday January 08, 2017 @04:52AM (#13349079)

I believe there is such a thing as the king-consort.

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