Wouldn't she automatically become the queen?

No, I'm forgetting how the protocol for that sort of things goes.

The newspapers tomorrow will be full of it, I expect.

Who gives a f--k? Am I the only one that doesnt care that these two are getting married? Im sick of all the coverage they are getting

Who gives a f--k? Am I the only one that doesnt care that these two are getting married? Im sick of all the coverage they are getting

It is an absolute non-event. Royal weddings ended in the 1980s. Charles and Diana's was the swan song.

Edited November 21, 201015 yr by Sylph

And that he proposed with his mother's ring, a terrific tribute to her.

More like REAL bad karma if you ask me.

Kate looks good, slightly gold-diggerish but she seems to like to be stuck with William (who needs to rush that wedding if he wants to be fast than his receiding hair line...). So maybe this union actually stands a chance. Good look to them.

Wouldn't she automatically become the queen?

Nope, she would remain a princess. (Hence Prince Phillip even in his nineties remains a prince and it is not King of England)

But they are second in line anyway - Charless is actually the successor of the house Windsor.

<span style="font-size:120%;">Unlike so many of his predecessors, William – a genial, approachable and level-headed young man – has not been pushed into a quick dynastic alliance with the nearest, most useful and available European princess, nor with an offspring of the aristocracy a decade younger than he is, but with the daughter of a resolutely middle-class, self-made couple.Her forebears include Northumberland coalminers and Kent building labourers, as well as Leeds businessmen. Her parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, met when they both worked for British Airways – she as a flight attendant, he as a flight dispatcher – and their first married home was a flat in Slough, just across the river from the future in-laws. They have had to bear the ill-disguised sneers of some royal hangers-on – "Doors to manual," they sniggered, and was Mrs M seen chewing gum? – and intrusive media interest for years without assistance from the palace. So far, they have been neither indiscreet nor loquacious.

The Middleton family fortune is based on the online company they established selling party bags and other paraphernalia for children's parties – Kate and her younger sister and brother were used as models in the early catalogues, and Kate has worked for the family firm again in recent years. The success of Party Pieces not only enabled the family to move to a large house in the pretty village of Bucklebury, near Newbury, but also to educate their daughter privately, at Marlborough public school.

It was at Marlborough that Middleton Middleton first came into contact with children from the Cotswolds country set who were used to mingling with royalty and where, allegedly, she became known as princess in waiting because of her enthusiasm for the prince she had never met.

According to her school friend Jessica Hay, in an interview with the Mail on Sunday: "We would sit around talking about all the boys at school we fancied, but Catherine would always say, 'I don't like any of them. They are all a bit of rough.' Then she would joke, 'There's no one quite like William … I bet he's kind. You can tell just by looking at him.'"

The Guardian</span>

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Nope, she would remain a princess. (Hence Prince Phillip even in his nineties remains a prince and it is not King of England)

'm not 100% sure on this, but Prince Phillip is not a King because he married a Queen. But a woman can be Queen if she married a King.

I think all of Henry VIII's wives were considered Queens.

ETA: Here someone explains it better:

"Kate will be Queen Consort, Elizabeth is Queen Regnant, meaning she rules in her own right. Ingrained sexism means we've never had a King Consort - hence why poor Prince Philip isn't King.

However, if you have a King Regnant - like William will be - his wife does become Queen."

Henry the Eighth ruled in the first half of the 16th century and wasn't a Windsor. He was a Tudor. Royal law changed since then.

It is an absolute non-event. Royal weddings ended in the 1980s. Charles and Diana's was the swan song.

Really? A 'non-event'? I don't know about that. Pretty sure all the US Networks, and many other countries, will telecast this wedding and millions of people will watch all over the world. Will it get as many viewers as Diana/Charles? No.

Henry the Eighth ruled in the first half of the 16th century and wasn't a Windsor. He was a Tudor. Royal law changed since then.

I know. Maybe using Henry was a bad example.

Toups has it right. Catherine Middleton will be Queen Consort once William is King Regent. Same situation as with Queen Elizabeth II's father and the late Queen Mother.

Toups has it right. Catherine Middleton will be Queen Consort once William is King Regent. Same situation as with Queen Elizabeth II's father and the late Queen Mother.

That's the most interesting part of the monarchy: the protocol, the rules, patterns of behaviour.

Really? A 'non-event'? I don't know about that. Pretty sure all the US Networks, and many other countries, will telecast this wedding and millions of people will watch all over the world. Will it get as many viewers as Diana/Charles? No.

And what else is relevant about it? Only because millions of people will be watching. And then what? What other serious implications does it have?

And what else is relevant about it? Only because millions of people will be watching. And then what? What other serious implications does it have?

I don't know. It's not going to change politics or anything. But I know it's not a 'non-event.'

That's the most interesting part of the monarchy: the protocol, the rules, patterns of behaviour.

It ain't called "The Firm" for nothing.

And what else is relevant about it? Only because millions of people will be watching. And then what? What other serious implications does it have?

I think it will be a bit of a morale boost for dreary, broke, unhappy, ugly, ignorant, violent, tacky, England.

You can't base anything on Internet comments but I do sometimes feel some want to tear down the wedding before it ever happens. Some of the comments like oh, he already gave her his mother's engagement ring, how cheap and tacky -- I thought that was what Diana wanted. Considering all the public flailing over her you'd think a lot of people would be pleased. I guess they probably are but those who aren't pleased are more vocal.

Edited November 21, 201015 yr by CarlD2