List of Royal Consorts of British Monarchs

The current Royal Consort Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, together with his wife Queen Elizabeth II (2007)

The list of the Royal Consorts of the British Monarchs chronologically lists all the spouses of the British monarchs since the merger of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland and the associated establishment of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 up to the present day. The list does not include the Queen Regnants of Great Britain who rule in their own right (→ List of British Monarchs ).

For a listing of the previous Royal Consorts, see List of Royal Consorts of English Monarchs and List of Royal Consorts of Scottish Monarchs

The wife of the British King is usually referred to as the Queen Consort or often just as the Queen . Women as ruling queens ( Queen Regnant ) are rarer, which is why there is no fixed designation for the position of a male royal consort . So was Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , the husband of Queen Victoria of 1857 the official title of Prince Consort awarded, while Prince Philip , the husband of Elizabeth II. Since 1957 the title of Prince ( Prince wears).

The usual title for the British Queens Consort was from 1727 Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland , from 1801 Queen consort of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , from 1901 Queen consort of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas and from 1927 Queen consort of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas .

Legend

The male Royal Consorts are highlighted in blue, unlike their female counterparts, the Queen Consorts.

• Royal Consort
  • Image: Shows a portrait of the respective Royal Consort. Wherever possible, the portrait closest to the date of the actual lifetime was chosen.
  • Name: Provides the usual name in German and English, as well as the life data of the Royal Consorts.
  • Duration: indicates the period during which the person was the royal consort of an English monarch.
• coronation
  • Date: indicates the date of the coronation to the Queen Consort .
  • Location: Names the location of the Queen Consort's coronation .
• married to
  • Name: Provides the name, the period of reign and the dates of life of the English monarch who is maritally related to the Royal Consort.
  • Date: states the date of marriage with the respective English monarch.
  • Image: Shows a portrait of the respective English monarch with whom the Royal Consort is in marital relationship. Wherever possible, the portrait closest to the date of the actual lifetime was chosen.

List of Royal Consorts of Great Britain (from 1707)

Only the recognized Royal Consorts whose marriages fall during the reign of the respective British monarch are included in the list. This excludes spouses of British monarchs whose marriage was divorced or declared null and void before their spouse ascended to the throne, as was the case with Sophie Dorothea von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (* 1666; † 1726), wife of the later George I (1714-1727) and Maria Fitzherbert (* 1756; † 1837), first wife of the later George IV (1820-1830) was the case. Wallis Simpson (* 1896; † 1986), who married her husband, the former Edward VIII (1936), only after his abdication is not counted among the Queen Consorts .

Royal Consort			coronation		married to
image	Surname	Duration	date	place	Surname	date	image
House of Stuart
	George of Denmark (English George of Denmark ) * May 1, 1653 † November 8, 1708	1707-1708	no coronation		Anne (1702–1714) * February 16, 1665 † August 12, 1714	August 7, 1683
House of Hanover
	Caroline von Brandenburg-Ansbach (English Caroline of Ansbach ) * March 11, 1683 † December 1, 1737	1727-1737	October 22, 1727	Westminster Abbey	George II (1727–1760) * November 9, 1683 † October 25, 1760	September 2, 1705
			together with husband
	Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (English Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ) * May 19, 1744 † November 17, 1818	1761-1818	September 22, 1761	Westminster Abbey	George III (1760–1820) * June 4, 1738 † January 29, 1820	September 8, 1761
			together with husband
	Caroline von Braunschweig (English Caroline of Brunswick ) * May 17, 1768 † August 7, 1821	1820-1821	Coronation refused		George IV (1820-1830) * August 12, 1762 † June 26, 1830	April 8, 1795
	Adelheid von Sachsen-Meiningen (English Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen ) * August 13, 1792 † December 2, 1849	1830-1837	September 8, 1831	Westminster Abbey	Wilhelm IV. (1830–1837) * August 21, 1765 † June 20, 1837	July 11, 1818
			together with husband
	Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (English Albert of Saxe-Coburg ) * August 26, 1819 † December 14, 1861	1840-1861	no coronation		Victoria (1837–1901) * May 24, 1819 † January 22, 1901	February 10, 1840
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (renamed House Windsor in 1917 )
	Alexandra of Denmark (English Alexandra of Denmark ) * December 1, 1844 † November 20, 1925	1901-1910	August 9, 1902	Westminster Abbey	Edward VII (1901–1910) * November 9, 1841 † May 6, 1910	March 10, 1863
			together with husband
	Maria von Teck (English Mary of Teck ) * May 26, 1867 † March 24, 1953	1910-1936	June 22, 1911	Westminster Abbey	Georg V (1910–1936) * June 3, 1865 † January 20, 1936	July 6, 1893
			together with husband
	Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ( Queen Mum ) * August 4, 1900 † March 30, 2002	1936-1952	May 12, 1937	Westminster Abbey	George VI. (1936–1952) * December 14, 1895 † February 6, 1952	April 26, 1923
			together with husband
	Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (English Philip of Greece ) * June 10, 1921	since 1952	no coronation		Elisabeth II. (Since 1952) * April 21, 1926	November 20, 1947

See also

• List of British monarchs
• List of Royal Consorts of English Monarchs
• List of Royal Consorts of Scottish Monarchs

literature

• EB Fryde, DE Greenway [Ed.]: Handbook of British Chronology , London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society 1986.
• Alan Palmer, Veronica Palmer: The chronology of British history , London [u. a.]: Century 1992.
• Roy Strong: Coronation: a History of Kingship and the British Monarchy , London: HarperCollins 2005.
• Timothy Venning: Compendium of British Office Holders , Basingstoke [u. a.]: Palgrave Macmillan 2005.
• David Williamson: Brewer's British royalty , London: Cassell 1996.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ English names after Venning: Compendium of British Office Holders. P. 84, German names and dates according to Marita A. Panzer: England's queens - from the Tudors to the Windsors. Pustet, Regensburg 2001.
2. ↑ Information - unless otherwise stated - from: Williamson: Brewer's British royalty. Appendix XXXVI (Coronations since the Norman Conquest), p. 391.
3. ^ ^{A b} Fryde, Greenway (Ed.): Handbook of British Chronology. Pp. 45-49.
4. ^ Roy Strong: Coronation: a History of Kingship and the British Monarchy , London: HarperCollins 2005, (in the list of coronations).

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