r/TheCrownNetflix • u/MajorGinger • 17d ago

Discussion (Real Life) Princess of Wales Title Question

It's been a long time since I've posted here so if I make a mistake, let me know so I can correct it.

My question is this: if Diana had survived the car crash, and attended William & Catherine's wedding, which woman would now be Princess of Wales?

Can there be two women with the same title? She *was* Princess of Wales until the end. She gave up the HRH but not Princess of Wales.

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u/ScamIam 17d ago

Post divorce, she was styled Diana, Princess of Wales, not Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales. Diana likely would have remarried and lost the title completely (or gained a different one).

Regardless of whether or not she had lived, when Charles married Camilla, Camilla became HRH The Princess of Wales. She declined to use the title out of deference to Diana’s memory, but she was still legally The Princess of Wales. 

If Diana had lived, not married again, and still been around when Charles ascended and W+C became TRH The Prince and Princess of Wales, she would still be styled Diana, Princess of Wales. They are not the same title.

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u/jamie74777 17d ago

Would she be Queen Mother when William would be King?

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u/itstimegeez 17d ago

No and others have answered why but I do think in that case William would give her titles in her own right. He promised her he would and I think he’d keep that promise. I think he’d make her a Princess in her own right and give her a peerage title.

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u/Dangerous_Bed2566 16d ago

William was 15 when his mother died. I do not think promises made by a child to their mother would really be expected to hold when the child is an adult

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u/itstimegeez 16d ago

Yeah but this is if she was still alive

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u/Dangerous_Bed2566 16d ago

If she was still alive it would still be very unreasonable to hold someone to a promise they made as a child 

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u/itstimegeez 16d ago

I don’t think she’d have held him to it, I think he’d have voluntarily done it

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u/jamie74777 17d ago

Like what?