From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcdaniel
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: Posslq finds favor - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1556
Posted: Wed Feb 23 22:38:26 1983
Received: Thu Feb 24 03:42:17 1983

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uiucdcs!mcdaniel    Feb 23 20:35:00 1983

About royal marriages:

In Great Britain, as I recall, a ruling king is married to his queen,
but a ruling queen is married to her prince consort. Examples:
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (now the Queen Mother of Great
Britain), but Queen Elizabeth II and Philip Prince Consort, and
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.  King William and Queen Mary of
the Glorious Revolution was a special case (Queen Mary ruled, but
King William would have ruled if he survived her).  This is the
practice in the Netherlands, I think.  -- The reason for this rule, of
course, is that the rank of "King" is considered higher than that
of "Queen".  Sexist, but most monarchies are, although some more
modern monarchies have recently changed the succession rule to avoid
sexual discrimination.  BTW, in SCAdia (the Society for Creative
Anachronism), the ruler decides his/her consort's status and rank.

				  God save the Queen!

                                  Tim McDaniel
                                  (. . . pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcdaniel)