List of British royal consorts

A royal consort is the spouse of a reigning king or queen. Consorts of monarchs of the United Kingdom and Great Britain have no legal status or power but many have had significant influence.^[1] There have been 11 royal consorts since Britain's union of the crowns in 1707, eight women and three men.

The current consort is Queen Camilla. She became queen when her husband, Charles II, became king on 8 September 2022.

List of consorts

Name	Birth	Marriage	Became consort	Coronation	Ceased to be consort	Death	Burial place	Time as consort	Spouse
Prince George of Denmark and Norway	2 April 1653 Son of Frederick III of Denmark and Norway and Duchess Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg	28 July 1683	1 May 1707 Creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain; previously English / Scottish royal consort since her husband became king, 8 March 1702	Not crowned	28 October 1708 55 years, 209 days		Westminster Abbey	1 year, 180 days	Anne
Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach	1 March 1683 Daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach	22 August 1705	11 June 1727 Husband became king	11 October 1727	20 November 1737 54 years, 172 days		Westminster Abbey	10 years, 162 days	George II
Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz	19 May 1744 Daughter of Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Prince of Mirow and Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen	8 September 1761	8 September 1761 Married the king	22 September 1761	17 November 1818 74 years, 126 days		St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle	57 years, 70 days	George III
Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel	17 May 1768 Daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Princess Augusta of Great Britain	8 April 1795	29 January 1820 Husband became king	Not crowned	7 August 1821 53 years, 72 days		Brunswick Cathedral	1 year, 190 days	George IV
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen	13 August 1792 Daughter of Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and Princess Louise Eleanore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg	13 July 1818	26 June 1830 Husband became king	8 September 1831	20 June 1837 Husband died	2 December 1849 56 years, 311 days	St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle	6 years, 359 days	William IV
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	26 August 1819 Son of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg	10 February 1840	10 February 1840 Married the queen	Not crowned	14 December 1861 42 years, 110 days		St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle then Frogmore Mausoleum	21 years, 307 days	Victoria
Princess Alexandra of Denmark	1 December 1844 Daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel	10 March 1863	22 January 1901 Husband became king	9 August 1902	6 May 1910 Husband died	20 November 1925 80 years, 354 days	St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle	9 years, 104 days	Edward VII
Princess Victoria Mary of Teck	26 May 1867 Daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge	6 July 1893	6 May 1910 Husband became king	22 June 1911	20 January 1936 Husband died	24 March 1953 85 years, 302 days		25 years, 259 days	George V
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon	4 August 1900 Daughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck	26 April 1923	11 December 1936 Husband became king	12 May 1937	6 February 1952 Husband died	30 March 2002 101 years, 238 days		15 years, 57 days	George VI
Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark	10 June 1921 Son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg	20 November 1947	6 February 1952 Wife became queen	Not crowned	9 April 2021 99 years, 303 days			69 years, 62 days	Elizabeth II
Camilla Shand	17 July 1947 Daughter of Bruce Shand and The Hon. Rosalind Cubitt	9 April 2005	8 September 2022 Husband became king	6 May 2023	Incumbent Age: 77 years, 157 days		Living	2 years, 105 days	Charles III

References

↑ Tudor and Stuart consorts : power, influence, and dynasty. Aidan Norrie. Cham, Switzerland. 2022. ISBN 978-3-030-95197-9. OCLC 1336986822.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link); Bogdanor, Vernon (1995). The monarchy and the constitution. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-152089-1. OCLC 344061919.; Queens & power in medieval and early modern England. Carole Levin, R. O. Bucholz. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8032-2278-6. OCLC 316765760.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

Other websites

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[1] Tudor and Stuart consorts : power, influence, and dynasty. Aidan Norrie. Cham, Switzerland. 2022. ISBN 978-3-030-95197-9. OCLC 1336986822.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link); Bogdanor, Vernon (1995). The monarchy and the constitution. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-152089-1. OCLC 344061919.; Queens & power in medieval and early modern England. Carole Levin, R. O. Bucholz. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8032-2278-6. OCLC 316765760.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

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