Q: Ken - London
Where do The Royal Family celebrate Easter?
The Royal Family celebrate Easter at Windsor Castle, which is where the court always resides over the Easter period.
Q: Reid - London
Why aren't engagements made by Prince and Princess Michael of Kent found within the Court Circular?
The engagements carried out by Prince and Princess Michael of Kent are not recorded in the court circular as they do not carry out 'official engagements'. All the other members of the Royal Family recorded in the court circular receive parliamentary annuities in recognition of their work. Prince and Princess Michael of Kent do not. These parliamentary annuities are all repaid to the Treasury by The Queen.
Prince and Princess Michael of Kent do appear in the court circular if they are guests of The Queen, for example at the service to mark the coronation.
Q: Fred Collings - Lawrence, MA, USA
Is Prince Charles heir presumptive or heir apparent or both? Should not the idea of the Protestant succession be abandoned because we now live in an age of toleration?
Prince Charles is the heir apparent to the throne. The heir apparent cannot possibly have his right to the throne defeated by another birth. Prince Charles is the eldest son of the monarch. Whoever was born after him makes absolutely no difference to his position in the line of succession.
It would be different in the case of a woman for example. Were Princess Anne the eldest child of The Queen, she would have been heir presumptive, i.e. she would have come to the throne provided that there were no brothers later born into the family. The Queen, when Princess Elizabeth, was in this same way heir presumptive to the throne from 1936 and her father's accession.
The question of abandoning the Protestant succession is a matter for parliament. As the 1701 Act of Settlement regulates the succession, it would require another such act, or an amendment to that act for the rules surrounding the succession to change.
Q: Carl Fraley - Valdosta, GA USA
When Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon married HRH the Duke of York in 1927, upon becoming HRH the Duchess of York, did she outrank HRH The Princess Royal, Princess Mary? Wouldn't a princess of the blood outrank one who married into the Family? I know that upon becoming Queen she would not be outranked by anyone save the King, but what about before.
In terms of precedence, Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, as Duchess of York, would outrank Princess Mary, The Princess Royal. As Duchess of York, she is the wife of the Duke of York who ranks above The Princess Royal in terms of the succession.
Similarly in today's Royal Family, The Countess of Wessex takes precedence over The Princess Royal, despite the fact that the latter is a child of The Queen. Precedence in the Royal Family is based around the line of succession, and even though husbands and wives of blood members of the Royal Family would not come to the throne in their own right, they would come to the throne as Queen or Prince consort and so they are ranked accordingly alongside their respective partner.
Q: Megan Harding - Oregon, USA
I know that Zara and Peter Phillips were not given titles upon birth by the choice of their mother. My question is, could they have been Prince and Princess had their mother chosen? Also, could they receive royal titles later in life should the monarch feel they have earned such through their work?
Peter and Zara Phillips could not have been Prince or Princess on account of the 1917 Letters Patent issued by King George V which made clear that Prince, Princess, Her and His Royal Highness could only be used by the children of the sovereign and then their children in the male line. Thus the children of The Prince of Wales, The Duke of York and The Earl of Wessex are entitled to use such titles, but the children of The Princess Royal are not (the eldest son of the eldest son of The Prince of Wales can also be styled in such a manner).
Whether they receive titles in later life or not is pure speculation at this stage.
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