Quote Originally Posted by Azrobert View Post
I am not an anglophile, so forgive me if this is a dumb question. Isn't Charles, William's father, the Prince of Wales? So, how would William also be the Prince of Wales?
Not a dumb question at all.

Charles is Prince of Wales whereas William is, like his brother Harry, of Wales. That is to say Prince William of Wales as opposed to Charles, Prince of Wales.

Confused - most people are. The press is the main culprit and prints rubbish at times and just mixes it all up. A very good (possibly the best) example:

Diana, Williams mother.

Titles and styles

1 July 1961 – 9 June 1975: The Honourable Diana Frances Spencer
9 June 1975 – 29 July 1981: The Lady Diana Frances Spencer
29 July 1981 – 28 August 1996: Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales
28 August 1996 – 31 August 1997: Diana, Princess of Wales

Posthumously, as in life, she is most popularly referred to as "Princess Diana", a title she never held. Still, she is sometimes referred to (according to the tradition of using maiden names after death) in the media as "Lady Diana Spencer", or simply as "Lady Di". After Tony Blair's famous speech she was also often referred to as the People's Princess.

Diana's full title, while married, was Her Royal Highness The Princess Charles Philip Arthur George, Princess of Wales & Countess of Chester, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Carrick, Baroness of Renfrew, Lady of the Isles, Princess of Scotland.

But she was never Princess Diana.

Regards

Chas