If a king dies (his wife, the queen is still alive) and he has a son, would that make him king?

The King"s wife is only Queen by courtesy of marriage (say a Miss Jones married a king, she would become Her Majesty the Queen) in the UK at least, women always take the rank and feminine style of her husband. If a man becomes a Lord, his wife becomes a lady, and so on.

The King is the monarch in his own right. The line of succession works by bloodline - not those who marry into the Royal Family. Take Queen Elizabeth II for example (although she's a girl, exactly the same principle would have applied had she been male, it just so happened there were no male sons).. When her father, the King died in 1952, the-then Princess Elizabeth immediately became Queen Regnant (regnant meaning in her own right, rather than Consort). But, I hear you ask, what happened to the now dead King's wife - the Queen? (Who was also called Elizabeth). She remained a Queen as she was in marriage, but her title became as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (or simply the Queen Mother). She could also have been referred to as the Dowager Queen, but nowadays 'dowager' is rarely used.

On the other hand (as that explanation didn't fully answer your question) if the King had a son, he would become King and the new king's wife would become Queen Consort, and the former king's wife would remain a Queen Consort.

However, to differentiate, let's say the new king's mother is called Mary. She would be referred to as Queen Mary. The new king's wife would simply be "The Queen'. The use of Queen [first name] would indicate that she was a widowed queen, who was once simply 'The Queen' before her husband's death. For example, if someone was to say "Where is the Queen?" It would be in reference to the current queen, but if they said "Where is Queen Mary" it would be in reference to the wife of the deceased king in your question. So no other title as such, but styled in another way.

Queen Consorts have no right to reign, but may be assigned as Regent (fulfilling monarchical duties) on behalf of the new monarch until he or she reached the age of 18.

Hope that helped!

Queen consorts only have a courtesy title. A Queen consort is a fancy way of saying that she is "Mrs. King." She has no power whatsoever. So, when the king dies, their son becomes king.

The wife of the son then becomes a Queen consort as well, so, there are actually now 2 queens - the King's wife, and his mother. But, neither have power.

Elizabeth II is the Queen Regent - the actual Queen, which is why her husband Philip is not king. He is her consort.

If the prince is really young, a regent would be appointed, but, he'd still be king, even if he was a baby.

The son would become the king....the line decended from the King - the Queen, who married into the family would not be of the royal descent line, whereas the son would.

The son would become King.

The mother would now become known as the Queen Mother.

This is what happened when King George died and Queen Elizabeth (his daughter) became Queen. Her mother was still alive (and was Queen when George was King), but the mother was not of the royal descent line because she married into the family - Elizabeth is of the royal descent line...so she became Queen and the mother became the Queen Mother.

BTW Elizabeth's husband, Philip is not the King, he is the Prince consort because a King usually has more power than a Queen, but since Philip is not of the royal descent line, just married into the family, he should not have power over the Queen, so he is just a Prince, not King.

The son becomes King.

Queens consort are merely wives. They do not become queens regnant when their husbands die, they don't inherit the throne. Instead, the husband is either succeeded by one of their children or, if there are no children, by whichever of his blood relatives -- a sibling, niece, nephew, cousin -- is next in line to the throne.

A queen regnant is a woman who reigns in her own right, having inherited the throne from a previous monarch who was her blood relative. A queen consort is just the wife of a king. Queen Elizabeth in the UK is a queen regnant. Her mother, the late Queen Mother, was the queen consort to King George VI, Elizabeth's father.

The new king's wife would be the new Queen Consort. His mother would be called the Dowager Queen Consort, dowager being a term for a widow. She could also, as Elizabeth's mother did, use the title "Queen Mother,' signifying that she was a dowager queen consort whose child (male or female, it doesn't matter) had become the new monarch.

Soon to be changed so this isn't gender specific, when a King dies, his son (or daughter soon) will become King/Queen. If the child is under-age, a Regent will be appointed which could be his mother, the Queen consort. The Queen would very rarely become Queen in her own right, unless she had a next in line title to the Throne, which I suggest would rarely happen unless the dead King had married his sister.

Add - Although any surviving Queens, the mother/grandmother if applicable, of the next in line would still be entitled to her title of Queen, in fact she'd be a Queen in name only. In the case of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and Queen Elizabeth II, it was only the latter who was the reigning Queen. And further, her mother, Q.Elizabeth the Queen Mother was so named to avoid confusion between both her daughter (another Elizabeth) and the reigning Queen's grandmother, Queen Mary.

A King and Queen have a son. The King dies; his son (if he is the eldest son) then becomes King. That son's wife then becomes Queen-consort; his mother becomes Dowager Queen (or Queen Mother).

If the Prince in question is underage or incapacitated, then there is the question of a regency. How it's set up depends on the country. It could be the next adult in line to succeed, or it could be a council of regents.

No, only the children of a once reigning monarch may succeed to the throne. If the wife of a monarch, his queen consort, remarries, she is still entitled to be called a Queen Dowager or the Queen Mother, depending on whether or not she and the now deceased king were parents to the heir to the throne; however, if she remarries and bears a child, then he or she will share the status of his or her father. For example, after the death of Henry VIII, his last Queen consort, Catherine Parr, married Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour, and gave birth to a daughter, Mary Seymour, who inherited her courtesy title of Lady from her dad, who was incidentally a brother of Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour.

Similarly, imagine this scenario: Your mother marries a billionaire as her first husband, who drops dead a year before you were born. Your grief-stricken mother cannot live without the support of a husband, so she remarries the most handsome man she can find who needs a "Sugar Mama". Nine months after they are married, you are born. You cannot inherit your mother's first husband's billions since a familial link has to exist between an individual and those who inherit unless the deceased individual's will specifies that an unrelated individual or institution inherits his or her funds. A life insurance policy must also benefit a relation. Therefore, you can specify that the policy benefits a spouse, sibling, or child, niece, or nephew, but it cannot benefit a close friend.

The son would become the king in ancient times. Women didn't really rule. The wife would stay the queen until she dies or her son, that is now the king, gets married. I am not sure where the old queen would be in the royal area after that though

Look up Queen Mary. wife of George V.

Yes she would still be queen at one stage there were three queens sixty years ago for a year - queen mary queen mother and elizabeth II