Queen intervened: why Charlotte is a princess and not a lady

Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Cambridge was born in 2015 as the future king’s second child, Prince William and his wife Duchess Kate, born. Charlotte is now six years old – and looks more and more like her great-grandmother Elizabeth II. Like her older brother Prince Georgewho is third in line to the British throne, she has borne the title of Princess and Her Royal Highness since birth.

The fact that she became a princess is only thanks to her great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. Thanks to. Because that of King George V In the 1917 Letters patent issued, no princess title was actually intended for Williams and Kate’s daughter.

That’s why Princess Charlotte is not a lady

King George V’s decree spelled out exactly who would receive royal titles within the royal family. Accordingly, all children of a monarch receive the title Prince, Princess and His or Her Royal Highness (HRH). The sovereign’s grandsons, provided they were born of a monarch’s sons, are also eligible for titles, as is the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.

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