The British Monarchy

[BrianW]

Queen Dowager is the correct answer. 'Dowager' means a woman in receipt of dower. Traditionally, widowed women received one-third of their husband's lands in dower to keep them going in widowhood. More modern arrangements now apply.

(BTW, this is why women (usually) came with dowries back in the day. They were literally endowed in return. It was not, as so many think, a degrading custom. It was more like life insurance.)

 

[Ballymagash Blue]

Queen Dowager is the correct answer. 'Dowager' means a woman in receipt of dower. Traditionally, widowed women received one-third of their husband's lands in dower to keep them going in widowhood. More modern arrangements now apply.

(BTW, this is why women (usually) came with dowries back in the day. They were literally endowed in return. It was not, as so many think, a degrading custom. It was more like life insurance.)

I should have known that from my Lord Peter Wimsey novels!

 

[Ballymagash Blue]

Queen Dowager is the correct answer. 'Dowager' means a woman in receipt of dower. Traditionally, widowed women received one-third of their husband's lands in dower to keep them going in widowhood. More modern arrangements now apply.

(BTW, this is why women (usually) came with dowries back in the day. They were literally endowed in return. It was not, as so many think, a degrading custom. It was more like life insurance.)

Does the Dowager bit not come before the Queen bit as urban genie suggests. So Dowager Queen?

 

[mexico1970]

Does the Dowager bit not come before the Queen bit as urban genie suggests. So Dowager Queen?

The King is just like Frank Lampard, he's a placeholder for when the real one comes in.

 

[Pedestrian]

Build a bonfire..

 

[BrianW]

I'm pretty sure the correct title is Queen Dowager, but Dowager Queen is just another way of putting it. When it comes down to it, it may not be used as women tend not to like the term 'dowager' these days as it sounds ancient. The alternative form for a widowed duchess, for example, is (e.g.) Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk. It would not surprise me if they just called her 'Queen Camilla' for example. She simply would not be 'the Queen' anymore, which strictly she is now.

This is pretty obscure stuff! But it's always useful to know as you never know who you will be inviting to a party.

 

[kaz7]

Plain old fucking witch , cant bear her

 

[TinFoilHat]

King Pegging I will "retire" Camilla to a royal house in Jockland when he becomes king. (Possibly an island up there)

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

new poll out about charlies corronation

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Interesting the welsh seem most arsed, of the english the north most disintrested and from child to 64 yr olds the unintrested poll better

I’ll definitely watch it, so I suppose that makes me fairly interested, but mainly from a historical perspective, as it’s perfectly feasible I’ll never see another.

 

[aguero93:20]

really of the family which of them has a redeeming feature to admire

The red-headed cuckoo.