ROYAL TITLES Explained (and my American Viscountess title too!) 

My dearest Vicountess, I'm afraid I must correct you on one thing. The husband of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert was not King Consort, but Prince Consort. Only the husband of Mary Queen of Scots was styled King Consort.

Prince Albert was never called King Consort. He only was granted Prince Consort after many years of HM Queen Victoria asking for it from Parliment.

Honestly, I’d love parts 2, 3, etc of this. You explain things in a straightforward, easy-to-understand manner. Thank you!

I'm orignally from Sandwich Ma named after the Earl of Sandwich. It's a pretty little town on Cape Cod. Yes the police cars say Sandwich police on them and all the tourists laugh and take pictures of them! Anyhow, I enjoy your videos! RIP to Queen Elizabeth also!!!

That was precise, brief, and to the point. Thank you for the knowledge without wasting anyone's time.

You are so full of historical information! I love it when you put out this type of information!♥️

Prince Albert never got King Consort lol, he was simply known as Albert, Prince Consort lol.

Dear Viscountess Hinchingbrook, thank you for making us American girls proud of you as a representative of us, love your channel and your super cute apartment in Italy❤️

Please make a video about baronets cause it was interesting since they were in between nobility and knighthood which is kinda confusing since where are they really in both groups nobility or knighthood and also what are their roles when James I created it and can they be passed down through generations and what also please make a video about curtesy types

This was a great video. You explained it simply. Of course its WAY more complicated when you consider widows, styles, forms of address, formal styles, and historical/extinct titles and ranks(i.e. Ealdorman). Then there is also the title "Prince of Wales" and court titles like Lord High Constable, Lord High Chamberlain, Lord High Admiral etc.

Thank you, Viscountess. I am an American who is writing a fictional monarchy, and your explanation of the titles is helping me so much.

Madam you're a breath of fresh air,it's wonderful to learn about history and peerage system thank you for sharing with us.

I truly appreciate you, so much more, for absolutely embracing all you have, being grateful for it and making it 💯% yours and so much better! Thank you for being such a remarkable lady! 🌸🌿💕

Thank you for the video. I lived in Devizes Castle for 7 years. It was a great privilege.

You don’t know how much I needed and appreciate this well-presented vlog.

I know the history of the titles but it was interesting to hear when and who the first Earl of Sandwich got his title. I would also state that Albert was known as Prince consort to Queen Victoria.

I LOVE learning about this kind of thing!

Informative, short and sweet and covered everything, I always find your vlogs fascinating, Julie. I look forward to many more!

Thank you for explaining how it all works - love the background setting of your video too:-) but is it possible please to turn down the volume of the background music? Just found it a little distracting as I was trying to concentrate on the great information being given. xx

Thanks, Julie, for explaining all about the monarch titles, etc. So interesting and nice to know. Janice from Arkansas USA

Hi from USA, VA. I love learning now and history!

Short but very informative. Thank you.

Very interesting and clearly unpacked. Thank you.

Thanks so much for this vlog! Fascinating and so well done!💛💐🙋‍♀️

Very interesting and difficult to keep track of. I do however believe that Queen Victoria gave her husband the title of Prince Consort and not King Consort once she was crowned Queen.

Hi Julie, loved watching you on Ladies of London and so happy that you are doing so much royal history, British history etc. My favourite topics with a favourite person! So happy I found this! xx

Another fantastic video Julie! I am at school with Nestor and I am very grateful that he introduced me to your channel. Also you should ask him about his future career in boxing.

Thanks for taking the time to explain all the titles ❤😍😘

Thank you, Julie,

Awesome and very much appreciated. Thanks you

Very well explained. Our Kumar Family hails from a special royal heritage from India. The literal meaning of Kumar is "Prince" and Kumari is "Princess". These were shortened, or truncated, from Rajkumar & Rajkumari respectively. Although I am from a 3rd generation descendant of my Paternal Grandfather living in the United States, we always have had an extraordinary sense of pride for our unique lineage. In India, there were Maharajas and Shahs, who were the kings of various kingdoms. My Paternal Grandfather was the Diwan of Gangpur Kingdom which was a medium-sized kingdom in pre-independent India. A Diwan can also have overlapping role comparisons with a Royal Vizier. So, my Paternal Grandfather's position at the Gangpur Palace, called Kishore Mahal, was a Minister in rank right below the Maharaja, or King of Gangpur. We, including my Dear Wife, Radha Kumari Devi, our two Dear Children, Sanjay Arman Kumar II Sanjana Shafali Shaharazade are very proud that we have our own separate Diwan Coat of Arms & Crest, and to be descendants of the Diwan of Gangpur Dr. Sanjay Kumar I & The Entire Diwan of Gangpur Family

I really enjoyed listen and watching this. I found it exceptionally interesting! Thanks so much!!!❤😊❤

I've been totally fascinated by all of this ever since my first visit to England in 1976. I have a question - I always understood that Queen Victoria wanted Albert to be called King Consort but that Parliament refused to allow that title. You video says to the contrary. Wikipedia seems to back up the position that Albert was denied this title and was given instead the title of Prince Consort in 1857. What is correct here? I love your channels and enjoy each new video very much.

You explained it so beautifully .

Very simply put, Thank you Julie. Very much appreciated.

I'm intrigued by Baronets. Apparently some view them peers while others don't?

Thank you for a very understandable explanation. I’ve heard titles explained before but your video made a lot more sense. /thanks!!

This is very interesting. Thank you for explaining!

Julie, Very well done. Bravo 👏

Julie it is very good explanation about the titles.

I STUMBLED UPON YOUR CHANNEL AND AM INLOVE ALREADY! thank you for sharing, viscountess

Very informative Julie. Thank you!!!

Thanks for explaining the titles

such a fascinating family history

love your new style of dressing. very regal 🏆👍🇬🇧

Very nice, very understanding.

This was delightful. Thank you 😊

After watching the Queen's Funeral, I wondered if you could explain all of the "guards". Why does one guard have a green feather, another a red, etc. Some wear kilts, some are Beefeaters. I was interested in the Officers that marched beside the hearse. If you could recommend a website or book about this it would be helpful. Thank you!

Thank you. Clear and concise.

Thank you Julie for explaining British titles which can be complicated. I was fortunate to have met Princess Alexandra of Kent when I worked in London in the 1970's. To meet an actual Princess for an American like me was amazing! Hope to meet you someday also!

Fascinating, thankyou for explaining this, I always wondered how these titles were bestowed

Thank you sincerely for this, it was insightfully.

Fascinating history lesson, Julie! Answered some confusing head-spinning questions for this girl from the Midwest, USA! Lol! Thanks much🥰

been looking for this and it appears on my yt rec. thanks for the explanation 😀

Fascinating 👏🏻👏🏻

I love you! Thanks for the video! Anglophile in Florida!

Very informative.

I just found your channel this morning. Thank you for the content, and greetings from the NW suburbs.

What with the coronation of King Charles III likely to take place next year, please consider an upcoming video explaining the roles your father-in-law, The Earl of Sandwich, and your husband, Viscount Hinchingbrook will play on that important day.

Hi Julie. Enjoyed your show on English estates and this video. Subbed.

Great explanation!! Thanks!!💫

Just love you and your videos. Thank- you!!!

Thank you!

Love your amazing channel! ❤️👍🇺🇸

With the change in the Line of Succession putting Princess Charlotte 3rd in line now, is there any chance title structures may chance, allowing the Royal Princesses to inherit a Dukedom?

I always get confused after Duke and earl. That’s really nice that your father in law is in the House of Lords.

Thank you for sharing ❤️

Fascinating! Thank you!😅

Thank you

I’m confused: are you an American citizen or dual citizenship? Because I believe the constitution forbids titles of nobility unless with congressional consent. I am just curious.

Thankyou so much American Viscountess Julie for explaining the titles I now can explain to my family I find the Royal and aristocracy just fascinating 😍👌Have a fabulous weekend my love I’d love to know about who to curtesy to💖💖👌👌🌟🌟

As an American Anglophile in SC, I find your channels to be always fascinating. I have learned much and I greatly appreciate the quality of the content, visuals, and sound of your videos (vlogs). They are exceptionally well done. Today the blue dress you are wearing is so striking and you look wonderful in it. Thanks for all the sharing, the knowledge, the enthusiasm, and the laughter.

Julie! Prince Albert was "The Prince Consort" same with Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne

Great I would love to learn more about the royal titles

Very interesting 😊

If you’re a Hapsburg you can have a lot of titles. Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary had so many titles I can’t name them all.

thank you

Thank you very much Viscountess, it has been very interesting and in a few minutes you taught us in an easy way the British titles. I really wish your fellow American who is married to Prince Harry had your respect for the British Monarchy.

Love your video , it was very clear and you explained the content of the video very well.. Very interesting. I learnt something too , had no idea it was the first Earl Sandwich who brought King Charles second back to the throne of England. Thank you .,

Thank you🎉I like your videos 🎉

This was excellent. This was very educational. 🤔 Hmmmmm who can I test. 😄 By the way love your blue dress. 💙

Fantastic

I have a few questions? What about Lords and Ladys or would it be Lordship and Ladieship titles? Who gets them? How are they appointed and where do they rank in the title and or hierarchy of nobility? Does that also include knights and dames? Where do they rank in the hierarchy of things? If you could please let me know or rather do a new segment of these titles on you show? If at all possible? I thank you most kindly and do appreciate it.

Here you area, twenty plus years as a Viscountess, and still learning about heraldry and titles and nobility. Yet, Duchess Meghan had less than three years to try to grasp the enormity of British aristocracy and was “bashed” in the press when she made mistakes. As an American, you know that we aren’t taught these topics. I looked at my son’s history books, when he was in high school in 2010-2011, and there was less than a page explaining topics such as heraldry. Thank you for taking the time to teach those of us who want to know more and learn bewt via videos.

I see the lapel mic on the Vicountess, but in editing it appears that the sound source chosen is the camera microphone.

Wow so confusing. Glad you explained it.

I’ve just come across with this interesting channel. Are you related to HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester? As she was from the House of Montagu as well.

More, more, more. ❤❤😁😁

I love these shorter videos

I love your channel! Being a Lexington, Kentucky native, I probably got my fascination with the British royal family, titles, and so on when the Queen, God rest her soul, made visits to our fair countryside to visit her racehorses. I’d love to hear more about titles and what each means. For example, what resources and responsibilities come with a title?

❤️❤️❤️the American Viscountess educational interesting entertaining... puts our British Viscountess' to shame! thank you for sharing your home, family, lifestyle, experiences, opinions, knowledge, privilege, humour & style.... ICON🇺🇲🇬🇧

Lady Hinchingbrooke, its been brought to my attention that here in America , if your surname ( maiden name) is a locational name from England then its likely you are related to someone who held a title. Being a history buff and a very very curious person , I must know if my Maiden name Barnstable has anything to do with a previous Earl? My Great Aunt believed it did as she did some ancestry research however she passed away before we sat down and got into the details and her children now have all of that research and I do not speak much with them. I am not sure how to go about researching my family history past my grandparents? I would love some advice?

Does the oldest son of Viscount Hinchingbrooke get the courtesy title of Baron of St. Neots, or does that have to wait until he is the Viscount?

Doing research for a historical fiction novel and one of my characters is the second son of a Victorian-era noble. What would be a high enough title for the father to have that his second son basically working as a manager for an American magician to be a minor scandal like…more gossiped about, but not do any damage to the family’s reputation? Thanks.

My thanks to your father-in-law's ancestor who gave us subs, hoagies and Philly cheesesteaks. Hope that gambling problem wasn't hereditary.

I’m distantly related to your husband I’m a descendant of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury

Thank you for this lovely video. However, there are a few inaccuracies: First, Prince Albert was Prince Consort, not King Consort. The title "King Consort" does not exist in Britain, as far as I'm aware. In fact, Albert was awarded the title "Prince Consort" 17 years into his marriage to Queen Victoria. Before this, he simply held the title that he was born with, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, with the additional style of Royal Highness that he was given a few days prior to his wedding. Second, although there is currently an extant Earldom of Essex and therefore probably a Countess of Essex, as you listed the titles of the British Royal family at the beginning of the video, I assume you meant the Countess of Wessex? Third, considering the titles of a monarch's grandchildren in the female line, using the title of Prince/Princess is *not* optional. Descendants in the female line do not have the right to hold that title, according to the current rules in the UK. Children of British princesses always hold the title of their father - if he has any. As it became more common for royals to marry commoners, men that married a princess but did not hold a title of their own where often offered a hereditary peerage by the monarch. The last man to accept such an offer was Anthony Armstrong-Jones, husband to Princess Margaret, who was created Earl of Snowdon following his wedding. Hence, their children are styled as the children of an Earl. The same offer was made to Mark Phillips when he married Princess Anne, but they declined. Therefore, their two children Peter and Zara do not hold any titles and simply use their fathers surname. The only case in which a female line descendant could hold a Prince/ss title would be if the monarch specifically gave that title to them. :)

Hi Julie, good explanation, congratulations on making it so short and au point! Sorry to note, but shouldn't you mean Countsess of Wessex instead of Essex? Waiting for next episode, as always! Regards from Portugal 🙂

Is it true that the first Earl of Sandwich was a keen card player and wanted food given to him between slices of bread so he could continue playing without interruption, hence the name for sandwiches today?

Woah, I actually learned something. Not the meanings of all the titles (I already knew that) but that the Earl of Sandwich brought Charles II back to England. Everyone just knows him as the inventor of the sandwich helping restore the monarchy is way more important.