List of British consorts

The List of Royal Consorts of the British monarch chronologically lists all spouses of British monarchs since the merger of the kingdoms of England and Scotland and the associated emergence of the Kingdom of Great Britain in the year 1707 to the present time on. Not included in the list of the ruling in its own right queens (Queen Regnants ) of Great Britain (see → List of British monarchs ).

For a list of the previous Royal Consorts see:

The wife of the English king is usually referred to as Queen Consort and often only as a queen. Women as reigning queens (Queen Regnant ) are rare, which is why it is missing for the position of a male Royal Consort also at a fixed name. So Albert was awarded of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha, the husband of Queen Victoria, in 1857, the official title of Prince Consort, while Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Elizabeth II since 1957 the title of Prince (Prince) bears.

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

Legend

The male Royal Consorts are in the collection unlike their female counterparts, the Queens Consort, blue.

• Royal Consort

• Image: Displays a portrait of the respective Royal Consort. Where possible was the selected by the dating of the actual life time closest portrait.
• Name: Lists the usual in German and English name, and the life data of the Royal Consort.
• Duration: This indicates the period during which the person Royal Consort was an English monarch.

• Coronation

• Date: Denotes the date of the coronation as "Queen Consort ".
• Location: Call the place of coronation for "Queen Consort ".

• Married to

• Name: Lists the name of the reign and the life of the related data in a marital connection with the Royal Consort English monarchs.
• Date: Denotes the date of the marriage to the respective English monarchs.
• Image: Displays a portrait of each English monarch, with the Royal Consort is in a marital connection. Where possible was the selected by the dating of the actual life time closest portrait.

List of Royal Consorts of Great Britain ( 1707 )

Included in the list are only recognized Royal Consort, whose marriages fall under the reign of the respective British monarch. This includes spouses of British monarchs, whose marriage was dissolved before the throne of their husbands or annulled, as Sophie Dorothea of Brunswick- Lüneburg ( * 1666, † 1726), wife of the future George I ( 1714-1727 ) and Maria Fitzherbert (* 1756, † 1837), first wife of the future George IV (1820 - 1830) was the case. Also not to be among the Queens Consort is Wallis Simpson (* 1896, † 1986), which, married her husband, the former Edward VIII (1936 ) only after his abdication.