The Royal Wedding and the Bank Account

[justcarol67]

Geoff wrote:
> The Queen, and the Prince of Wales, both also have the income from property associated with two Royal Duchies (the Queen is Duke of  Lancaster which generates about £10 million, the Prince of Wales is Duke of Cornwall which generates about £15 million). Overall though the Crown is a real money spinner for Britain - in a sense they pay an income tax rate of about 80%!)

Carol responds:

The queen is a duke? How does that work? I know that it's possible to be a duchess in your own right and not just as the wife of a duke. If the British assign the male title to women who hold a title in their own right, then logically, she should be king, not queen, of England.

Wouldn't they also have income from Prince Philip's duchy of Edinburgh? (I don't know about his connections with the Greek and Danish royal families or even whether those families--or kingdoms--still exist.)

Carol, remembering that Elizabeth I was sometimes referred to as a "prince" (in the sense of ruler), possibly because "princess" in those days meant "daughter of a king"