Title of the Royal family? – 2nd ed.?

Hi. The Princess Royals children were not given titles as Princess Anne didnt want them,it was her choice. Normally Peter Philips would have been a Prince and Zara Philips would have been a Princess.

It's the fact that the Princess Royal is a woman, titles can normally only pass down the Male line, the children of Royal dukes (have the title HRH in addition to their dukedom) are Princes and Princesses, the children of Princesses are untitled unless the Queen confers a title upon them or they are already titled e.g. Earl Snowdon was created an Earl by the Queen upon his marriage to Princess Margaret.

It was reported that Princess Anne refused a title for Captain Mark Philips upon their marriage.

Although The Earl Of Wessex's daughter is titled Lady Louise, technically she is a Princess as a grandaughter of the Monarch through the male line.

It all comes down to the fact that children take their title from their father. So, if the father doesn't have a title, neither do the children, even if their mother is a princess and has a place in the succession to the throne. Of course, they are still the Queen's grandchildren, and have a place in the succession, even if it is far down in the line.

Princess Anne didn't want her husband to be titled for that reason. Princess Margaret's husband was given a title Lord Snowdon, so her children are titled. The children of Prince Andrew and Prince Edward are titled because they take thier titles from their father.

When Princess Anne go married to Captain Mark Phillips the Queen offered an Earldom to Captain Mark Phillips. But Princess Anne didn't want any title for her children. Someone above me mention that if Anne had accepted titles that Anne children would have been Prince and Princess that is wrong. Remember when the Queen sister Princess Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones. He was created Earl of Snowdon by his sister in law the Queen. Princess Margaret children have the title David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones

It was purely the choice of HRH Princess Anne and her then Husband Capt. Mark Phillips, who was himself a commoner, that their children would not have Royal titles...that is all. Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, did not make that choice.

I'm not 100% sure on this but I think it's due to the fact that only children of male heirs are given royal titles as the title is handed down from the father.This excludes the monarch as wether the monarch is a king or a queen all their children automatically recieve a royal title.

It is to do with where the individual stands in line to the throne. Princess Anne, having been displaced by her brothers and is now 9th in line for the throne, is no longer in direct line to the throne, so her offspring, therefore, will not carry the title of 'Prince' or 'Princess'. This is also because their father, Capt Mark Phillips, has no royal connection or title himself. The children of the queen and her grandchildren, which do stand in direct line to the throne, all carry this title. Consider it as a way of distinguishing who is in direct line and who isn't.

Princess Anne's title of 'Princess Royal' was conferred on her by the Queen in 1987 and she only the seventh holder of this creation.

Chris m - Princess Anne is a child of the Queen and, as such, is in direct line to the throne (albeit now some way down the list).

She simply declined the right to use titles for her children.

The daughters of a Prince are different from the daughters of a Princess

The children of a Prince receive titles, while the children of a Princess do not.