silverlining48
I accept Camilla as consort but see no reason why she should be crowned.
Philip wasn’t crowned why would she be.
In this day and age I am sure many of you will disagree with the traditional point of view, but here it is:
A woman when she marries takes her husband's rank.
This is clearly impossible when the woman is the heir to a throne, as the late Queen was when she married, so as there is no legal definition of the rank and status of a male consort of a female sovereign Phillip renounced his rights to the Greek and Danish thrones and was accorded the rank of Prince and created Duke of Edinburgh.
What exactly a man who marries a queen is entitled to causes trouble every time it occurs. Phillip II of Spain expected to be called King of England when he and Mary Tudor married and to excercise a husband's right to make decisions on behalf of his wife. Neither desire went down well with English nobility or commons.
The Dauphin Francis whom Mary Steward married demanded more or less the crown matrimonial of Scotland. The Scottish nobility saw no reason he should have it, and turned up in Paris to the wedding without it. Lord Darnley was not given it either nor was Bothwell.
Queen Victoria was miffed at the niggardly (her words not mine) grant parliament was prepared to make Prince Albert, but she certainly would have squashed any attempt on his part to call himself king.
Traditionally the legal wife of a king is crowned with him when he is crowned. There is not, and never has been any requirement that she should either be the king's first wife, or have been a virgin when she married him.
In both the German and Austrian empires there was a concept of morganatic marriage whereby the wife was not granted royal rank. - This was used when an Archduke, such as Franz Ferdinand married a noblewoman, but it has never been used in Britain.
Certainly, it has been said in our own time that Prince Henrik, the queen of Denmark's late consort was annoyed that he had not been given the title of king, but it seems this was as much senile dementia speaking as anything else.
Even Josephine Bonaparte succeeded in being crowned, which in her day was only possible because she persuaded the pope that she had always felt guilty that she and Napoleon had only married in a civil ceremony, and she in all haste somehow peruaded Napoleon to have a religious ceremony performed by a priest prior to the coronation.
Camilla and or Charles has sound legal precedent behind them, however old fashioned you may find it. It would frankly be an intorable insult to her if she was not.
