Talk:Queen consort

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Hello all. I've been working on making lists of European queen consorts over at User:John Kenney/Queens. I wonder if this might be useful as an actual wikipedia article, either on this page or linked from it. any thoughts? john k 20:29, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Impressive list! It most certainly should be its own article, and not part of this one, as it's quite simply huge. Simply put it at list of queen consorts in Europe or something like that? —Nightstallion (?) 16:06, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Q: ueen Consort and Princess Consort

Aside from the fact that on holds the title of Queen with the style Majesty whilst holds the title of Princess with the style Royal Highness, what is the difference between a Queen Consort and a Princess Consort? Is there any point to this intended downgrade in title if there isn't a difference.


[edit] A:

It has to do with the fact that Camilla is divorced. Charles is also divorced, but if one does not recognise his divorce, then he is widowed. Camilla is, however one looks at it, divorced.

So she is not a "suitable" Queen of England, even as Queen Consort. If, when her husband accedes the throne, she is to become his consort, a suitable title must be found. "Princess Consort" seems like a good way to go, because it then creates a hierachy which acknowledges that princess is less than king without confirming the old (nowadays artificial and somewhat offensive) hierarchy that queen is less than king. The term "princess consort" follows the same form as "prince consort".

And any question of having a divorced queen is simply sidestepped by a technicality.

--Amandajm 07:29, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

thinks:- Oh, no! There's another b* split infinitive!

[edit] redundant?

Isn't "A queen consort is the wife and consort of a reigning king." redundant? According to wicktionary, consort already means wife of a king. --MarSch 11:41, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Wiktionary, shockingly enough, is wrong. "Consort" is just a synonym for "spouse". It is most often used for the spouse of a reigning monarch, but a reigning monarch is not necessarily a king. john k 15:22, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I removed the redundancy yesterday without noticing this conversation. --Justanother 11:42, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Plural Form of "Queen Consort" & The Part of Speech of "Consort" in "Queen Consort"

Is the plural form of "queen consort" "queens consort"? One of the sections of this article uses "queens consort".

Is "consort" in "queen consort" a noun or an adjective? If the plural form of "queen consort" is "queens consort", it perhaps looks like an adjective. However, I find "queen consort" in an English-Korean dictionary, it is written as the stress is "quéen cónsort",[1] that means it is /ˈkwiːn ˈkɒnsɔːt/ in RP and /ˈkwiːn ˈkɑnsɔɹt/ in GA. (Most of English dictionaries written in Korean and published in the Republic of Korea is using the acute accent ( ´ ) as the primary stress and the grave accent ( ` ) as the secondary stress.) /ˈkɒnsɔːt/ and /ˈkɑnsɔɹt/ are not the pronunciations as an adjective but as a noun.

Briefly, my questions are below:

  1. Is the plural form of "queen consort" "queens consort"?
  2. Is the part of speech of "consort" in "queen consort" a noun or an adjective?
    • Is the pronunciation of "consort" in "queen consort" /ˈkɒnsɔːt/ in RP and /ˈkɑnsɔɹt/ in GA?
The latter, the latter, and "con" (like a scam) then "sort" (like to put in a specific order) † DBD 17:00, 11 August 2007 (UTC)