Tatiana Maria
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It may sound strange by today's standards that royal titles are not transmitted in female line in the UK, but the logic of it goes back again to the patrilineal naming of families. Under that criterion, Anne's children for example were born into the Phillips family, rather than the Windsor (or, if you prefer, Mountbatten-Windsor) family. It is just natural then that they shouldn't have royal titles.
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As the TRF member Somebody asked in a previous post, I wonder if equal primogeniture will eventually lead to a change on the use of princely titles in the UK.
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That is unless they decide to go a different way for those born after equal primogeniture was adopted (although giving Charlotte herself a hereditary title seems a more likely way to go); and husband at some point would be allowed to use his wife's title(s)...
More specifically, patrilineal naming of families and patrilineal inheritance of titles are each based on customary patriarchal principles.
As regards the possibility of changes, the British Government disclosed in June 2016 that it was seeking to resolve inequalities in the courtesy titles for husbands and wives of peers. But two weeks after the announcement, then prime minister Cameron announced his resignation.
Husbands of Baronesses in House of Lords could be given their own title rather than plain 'Mr', Government says
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