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DrBombay
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« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2012, 11:15:PM »
I just want to know why the guy married to the Queen isn't the King.  Somebody told me once but I disremember. 

Prince Consort sounds vaguely obscene.
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« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2012, 11:21:PM »
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I just want to know why the guy married to the Queen isn't the King.  Somebody told me once but I disremember. 

Prince Consort sounds vaguely obscene.

It's because Her Majesty is a queen regnant rather than a queen consort.  Here is a Wikipedia excerpt:
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A queen regnant (plural: queens regnant) is a female monarch who reigns in her own right, in contrast to a queen consort, who is the wife of a reigning king. An empress regnant is a female monarch who reigns in her own right over an empire.

A queen regnant possesses and exercises sovereign powers. The husband of a queen regnant does not usually share his wife's rank, title or sovereignty. A queen consort shares her husband's rank and titles, but does not share the sovereignty of her husband.

A queen dowager is the widow of a king who reigned in his own right. A queen mother is a queen dowager who is also the mother of a reigning sovereign.
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