{"id":1105,"date":"2011-04-29T18:16:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T18:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2011-04-29T18:16:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T18:16:42","slug":"whats-in-a-royal-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/whats-in-a-royal-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a (royal) name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Royal-kiss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Royal-kiss.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Royal kiss\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1106\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Royal-kiss.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Royal-kiss-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>You may not have heard, but a small wedding happened in London today. A small wedding where William and Kate became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>But why are they the Duke and Duchess and not Prince William and Princess Catherine?<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-13099871 .\">BBC News<\/a> article, \u201c[Kate] will automatically become Her Royal Highness, Princess William of Wales\u201d but will not be Princess Catherine as she is not \u201cof royal blood\u201d. Similarly, whilst many thought of Diana as \u2018Princess Diana\u2019, she was in fact Princess of Wales and, after her divorce, her official title was \u201cDiana, Princess of Wales\u201d.  <\/p>\n<p>So, instead of making new princes and princesses, \u2018ducal titles\u2019 are used. These give a rather grand (if old-fashioned title) to the new member of the royal family. Hence the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC have also talked about this issue during the wedding coverage today, with a member of the royal household saying that it was fine for the public to call Kate \u2018Princess Catherine\u2019 as that is how they think of her.<\/p>\n<p>Any less confused? I\u2019m not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not have heard, but a small wedding happened in London today. A small wedding where William and Kate became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. But why are they the Duke and Duchess and not Prince William and Princess Catherine? According to a BBC News article, \u201c[Kate] will automatically become Her Royal Highness, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[813,815,984,985],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-english","tag-english-language","tag-names","tag-royal-titles","tag-royal-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}