KATE MIDDLETON WILL BE QUEEN, BUT FOR THERE WILL NEVER BE A "PRINCESS KATE": LET'S EXPLAIN WHY
Despite being married to a prince and being the mother of three others, the Duchess of Cambridge is most likely never a princess as such.
Nine years ago Kate Middleton became the Duchess of Cambridge and took the first step on a path that, according to everything seems to indicate, will end up walking with the name of Queen Catherine. It is a journey that many other consorts have completed before her, but that unlike the current one, Prince Felipe, Kate will travel without holding the title of princess.
Indeed, the day of her wedding to Prince William Kate Middleton did not become a princess. At least, not in a princess who was in her own right, since, strange as it sounds, for nine years Kate has been the "Princess William", given that custom that exists in the United Kingdom that the commoner wives of the princes acquire the rank and title of her husband ... only with his name. This is what happens with Baroness María Cristina von Reibnitz, who since her wedding with Prince Michael of Kent, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, has been known as "Princess Michael of Kent" and not as "Princess María Cristina" .
But neither will we be able to speak properly of a "Princess Kate" when, once Prince Charles is crowned King, Prince William inherits the title of Prince of Wales and therefore Kate regains that of Princess of Wales, vacant since the death of Diana in 1993.
As the Royal Central website explains, at that time Kate will be "Princess of Wales", and although the same thing that was usually spoken of "Princess Diana" she is probably beginning to be known popularly as "Princess Kate", The truth is that neither then will she be a pure princess like Philip of Edinburgh, prince of Greece and Denmark since his birth in the Greek royal family, or, without going any further, Kate's three children, later that in 2012 Queen Elizabeth II established that all the children of the firstborn of the Prince of Wales are also princes, thus expanding the rule that until then reserved that condition to the queen's children, her grandchildren, and the eldest son of the firstborn of the heir.
It is true that Queen Elizabeth II could also decide to give the title of princess to Kate, as for example she did at the time with the Duchess of Gloucester, Princess Alice, after the death in 1974 of her husband, who as the king's grandson George V was a prince by birth.
However, until now the current monarch has only used this power in the case of the widows of her family, so the case of Kate would have no precedent. On the other hand, there is nothing strange that she is never a princess in the strict sense, and after all, the mother of Queen Elizabeth II only had time to be Duchess of York before going directly to be Queen Consort Elizabeth, given the sudden and unexpected abdication of his brother-in-law, Edward VIII.
