Does William have 2 titles? Because he is called "Prince William, Duke of Cambridge". So he have titles"Prince and "Duke". Can any one (brf)have more than a title?
Yes, many British peers have more than one title. William for example is also an Earl and a Baron in addition to being a Duke.
What is the difference between Duke/Duchess and Count/Countess?
is count/countess and earl all same titles?
Who becomes Duke of Edinburgh after Prince Philip?
Does there is anyone with title Duchess Of Edinburgh?
1. Duke is the highest rank in the peerage of the United Kingdom. Earl is the third highest rank, below Duke and Marquess, and above Viscount and Baron.
2. The nobility system in other European countries is not directly comparable to the peerage system in the UK, but, very roughly speaking, a Count would be the equivalent rank in continental European nobility to an Earl in the British peerage. Note, however, that the wife of a continental European Count and the wife of a British Earl are both called "Countess" in English. Likewise, a woman who holds a British peerage in her own right at the rank of Earl is also a Countess.
In some countries (for example, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden), all children of a (male) Count are often also Counts/Countesses from birth, although that is not always the case. In those cases, 'Count' functions as a prefix that is attached to a particular (patrilineal) family name. In other countries, most notably Spain and previously also in France, 'Count', like 'Earl' in the United Kingdom, is a title that is uniquely identified by a name ID, which can be either a family name or something else (for example a territorial designation, more common in older titles), and each uniquely identified title is held by one person only at any given time. Usually the title is transmitted hereditarily to the heir presumptive when the previous title holder dies, which is also the system used in the UK, but, in Spain for example, the law also allows a person who has more than one title to distribute his/her titles in life among his/her descendants, provided that the main (i.e. most senior) title is reserved to the heir presumptive.
3. Prince Charles is the current Duke of Edinburgh. Camilla, as his wife, is the current Duchess of Edinburgh.
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