Royal Family

She is very happy that her boyfriend of nearly seven years has finally stopped dragging his feet and making excuses, and has proposed to her.

Yes. Kate Middleton will one day be the queen consort (wife of a reigning king). There is, however a big difference between that and queen regnant. A queen regnant, such as Queen Elizabeth, is a female monarch who reigns in her own right.why doesn't the queen like Kate

The reason why she was not able to marry Peter Townsend was because he was divorced.

The Duke of Edinburgh gives it to you.

There is a whole raft of different modes of address to different grades of nobility - both for writing letters and speaking face-to-face.

When meeting the Queen, you address her as "Your Majesty" in your opening greeting (or reply), and then "Ma'am", pronounced either 'Mam' or 'Marm'.

For Prince Philip or Prince Charles, you would say "Your Royal Highness", and then "Sir".

Very well.

Prince George, Duke of Kent

Answer In recent history, King George V, reigned 1910 to 1936, had a full beard and Moustache (that's the British spelling), as did his predecessor, King Edward VII, who reigned from 1901 to 1910. King Charles II, reigned 1649 to 1685, is portrayed clean shaven and with a moustache but no beard and his predecessor, Charles I, 1625 to 1649 had a beard and moustache. There is at least one portrait of Charles I's predecessor - James I - with a beard and moustache. He reigned from 1603 to 1625. His predeccessor was Queen Elizabeth I, who had neither moustache nor a beard!

Funny Question, The Queen hasn't written Letters Patent about gay relationships, also gays in the UK can't marry, so legally speaking a same-sex partner of any member of nobility or Royalty wouldn't have a title because of that partnership.

Keith

It is about women being able to tell a man no and be comfortable doing so.

Arabic monarchs aside ( are you Shah?= Sultanly!_) I would guess Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands- with the Philips Group in her back pocket- as it were. this includes Transportation: KLM, Holland-America Line, Electronics- the Philips Line proper- always ahead in the electronics field- cassettes- later compact discs, etc)- and Royal Dutch Shell- all under Royal Dutch patronage. Trixie has the Philips Line in her back pocket!

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale.

HRM Queen Elizabeth II was born HRH Princess Elizabeth of York, to HRH The Duke of York (Prince Alfred, the future King George VI) and HRH The Duchess of York (Princess Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the future Queen Elizabeth).

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon did not have a regnal number [ie II, IV, etc.] as Queen because she was married to a King and was therefore Queen-Consort and not Queen in her own right, as Queen Elizabeth II is.

In our lifetimes we have known Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as HRM The Queen Mother, a title adopted for convenience and clarity (since both she and her daughter are addressed as "Her Royal Majesty" and share the same first name).

Queen Elizabeth I, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was born to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533. Anne Boleyn was executed in 1536; Elizabeth was three.

HRM Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, The Queen Mother, was born to Lord Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Lady Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, in 1900. She died in 2002.

Essentially, yes.... Princess Margaret would be styled "Her Royal Highness, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon" while Lucy Lindsay-Hogg would be styled "Lucy, the Countess of Snowdon" (seeing as if Lindsay-Hogg and the Earl of Snowdon where still married). Seeing how they are now divorced, she'd be known as Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, Countess of Snowdon as in past tense (like Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon)

the late Donna Summer. [a Boston dj (who's name escapes me) gav her that name, back in yhe '80s.]

Queen Elizabeth II's Great-Grandfather King Edward VII, and Lord Mountbatten's Grandmother Princess Alice, were brother and sister, children of Queen Victoria.

Queen Elizabeth referred to Lord Mountbatten as "Uncle Dickie".

Also, Lord Mountbatten's sister Alice married Prince Andrew of Greece, and they had a son Phillip, who married Queen Elizabeth II and became the Duke of Edinburgh, making the Queen and her husband 3rd cousins.

So....Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip both had Queen Victoria as a Gt-Gt-Grandmother.

Lord Mountbatten had Queen Victoria as his Gt-Grandmother.

The Mountbatten name was originally Battenberg, but was changed during the first World War because of hostilities with Germany.

The Royal Family stopped using their German names and titles in 1917.

The titles were inherited because of Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh is t he Grandfather of Prince William.

Balmoral Castle, Royal Deeside

If it truly did, there are three possible causes:

a) it brought tourists to London, who might otherwise have gone to New York.

b) currently, the British Royal family has a higher approval rating (64%) among US citizens than President Obama (45%).

c) the Obamas reportedly felt snubbed that they were not invited, in contrast to the Reagans who were invited to the wedding of William's parents, Prince Charles and Princess Diana (although President Reagan was still recovering from the assassination attempt, so Mrs Reagan came alone).

A blood royal is a member of a Royal House or dynasty who has at least one parent who was born into that particular house.

No, I don't believe that, but I am sure that people with AB blood types might enjoy believing it. Personally, I don't think that there is any such thing as "royal blood." ... Just people, who may or may not be descendants of past rulers, but who don't have any "right" to rule that is passed down in any way.

Sarah Ferguson is the former wife of Prince Andrew. She currently is very involved in charity work and is a charity spokesperson. She is also involved in the writing of children's books with the latest being "Ballerina Rosie" released in 2012.

It will be on Sky News, BBC1, ITV, BBC News and CNN. Hope this helped, and congratulations to the happy couple Prince William and Kate Middleton ! <3