Further To My Recent Post "is That An Occupation"?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/419749/Palace-inquest-after-Prince-William-names-Kate-as-his-Princess

It would seem there is even a confusion if the Dutchess of Cambridge is even a Princess.

[Octavius]

OMG, this is an outrage. Why aren't the BBC providing live coverage?

[jno]

I think princess is a job and a title but duchess is just a title

[maggiebee]

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet!

[mikey4444]

I really couldn't care a bug*er either way ! Drain on the public purse would seem to be more accurate.

[jim360]

mikey:

[jim360]

Also this article:

http://fullfact.org/factchecks/the_royal_family_are_we_getting_our_money_s_worth-27330

Which suggests that the £33million in tax costs is more than outweighed by assets and tourism. Running into billions. Drain on the public purse? Nonsense.

[andy-hughes]

It does appear that protocl dictates that the Duchess is not, as yet, a princess because marrying a prince does not automatically confer that title - as is shown by Camilla.

The more relaxed approach combined with a desire to be seen as forward-looking means that the palace is not getting its knickers in a twist in the way it would have done years ago.

[Brenden]

Diana was not Princess Diana she was Diana Princess of Wales - Kate will inherit this title in the future.

[pixie373]

I thought Camilla was entitled to use "princess" but decided not to? Princess Anne made a deliberate decision not to give her children titles. I'm sure, historically, any woman marrying a prince has become a princess. I wasn't aware it had changed.

[Peter Pedant]

O God I thought Aog had said that

Prince William had invaded Lichtenstein or something,
and was that an occupation ?

rather than a liberation or pacification