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{{Short description|British royal family title}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox political post
| post = Princess
| body = Wales
| native_name = {{native name|cy|Tywysoges Cymru}}
| insignia = Coat of arms of Catherine, Princess of Wales.svg
| insigniacaption = Arms of Catherine, Princess of Wales
| image = Princess of Wales at State Banquet 2025-09-17 (0.75 crop).jpg
| incumbent = [[Catherine, Princess of Wales|Catherine]]
| incumbentsince = 9 September 2022
| style = [[Royal Highness|Her Royal Highness]]
| member_of = [[British royal family]]
}}

'''Princess of Wales''' ({{langx|cy|Tywysoges Cymru}}; {{langx|la|Principissa Cambriae/Walliae}}) is a title used since the 14th century by the wife of the [[Prince of Wales]]. The Princess is the apparent future [[queen consort]], as "Prince of Wales" is a title reserved by custom for the [[heir apparent]] to the [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|British throne]], and earlier the English throne. The current title-holder is [[Catherine, Princess of Wales|Catherine]] (née [[Middleton family|Middleton]]).

When the title was first recorded it was not connected to the English throne; it developed in an independent Wales when it was held by [[Eleanor de Montfort]], wife of the [[List of rulers of Wales|native Prince of Wales]] [[Llywelyn ap Gruffudd|Llywelyn ap Gruffydd]].

== Background ==
Prior to "Princess" ([[Welsh language|Welsh]]: {{Lang|cy|Tywysoges}}) the title of "Queen" ([[Welsh language|Welsh]]: {{Lang|cy|Brenhines}}) was used by some spouses of the rulers of Wales. Examples are [[Angharad ferch Owain]], wife of [[Gruffudd ap Cynan]], and [[Cristin verch Goronwy]], wife of Gruffudd's son, [[Owain Gwynedd]] (specifically, she was known as "Queen Dowager").<ref>{{Cite book |last=Messer |first=Danna R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhsJEAAAQBAJ&dq=angharad+ferch+owain+tywysoges+cymru&pg=PA22 |title=Joan, Lady of Wales: Power and Politics of King John's Daughter |date=2020-09-30 |publisher=Pen and Sword History |isbn=978-1-5267-2932-3 |pages= |language=en |access-date=23 October 2022 |archive-date=13 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113214035/https://books.google.com/books?id=JhsJEAAAQBAJ&dq=angharad+ferch+owain+tywysoges+cymru&pg=PA22 |url-status=live }}</ref>  

== The title in independent Wales ==
{{main|Wales in the High Middle Ages}}
{{See also|List of rulers of Wales}}

=== Joan (Siwan) ===
[[Joan, Lady of Wales|Joan]], also known as Siwan (her [[Welsh language|Welsh]] name), was the illegitimate daughter of [[John, King of England|John of England]]. She was the wife of [[Llywelyn ab Iorwerth]] (initially King of [[Kingdom of Gwynedd|Gwynedd]]), effective ruler of all of [[Wales]].<ref name="ODNB">[[doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14819|Kate Norgate and A. D. Carr: "Joan [Siwan]]", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford: OUP, 2004), Retrieved 2 February 2019.]</ref> During her tenure, she used the titles "Lady of Wales" and "Lady of Snowdon".

=== Eleanor de Montfort and Gwenllian ===
[[File: Gwenllian memorial Sempringham.jpg | 190px|thumb|Memorial to Gwenllian in [[Sempringham]], England<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Gwenllian The Lost Princess of Wales |url=https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofWales/Gwenllian-Lost-Princess-Of-Wales/ |access-date=2022-09-11 |website=Historic UK |language=en-GB |archive-date=23 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323203401/https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofWales/Gwenllian-Lost-Princess-Of-Wales/ |url-status=live }}</ref>]]

Following her wedding ceremony in 1278, [[Eleanor de Montfort]] was officially known as Princess of Wales.<ref name=":1">Bliss, W. H., editor. Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 1, 1198–1304. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1893.</ref><ref name=":3">Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1272–81, 306; CPR, 1281–92, 11</ref><ref name=":5">''Calendar of Ancient Correspondence'', 75–76</ref><ref name=":6">''Foedera'' I, ii, 576, 584, 587</ref> On 19 June 1282, she died giving birth to her first child, [[Gwenllian of Wales|Gwenllian]].<ref>The [[Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds]], pp. 74–76</ref>

The infant was captured by English forces the following year, after her father, [[Llywelyn ap Gruffudd|Llywelyn ap Gruffydd]], was killed in December 1282. At [[Edward I of England|Edward I]]'s orders, she was kept in the remote [[Sempringham Priory]] in [[Lincolnshire]], where she remained until her death in 1337.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}

Gwenllian's status was acknowledged at least once by the English Crown. When writing to the pope, attempting to secure more money for Sempringham Priory, the king stated that "...herein is kept the Princess of Wales, whom we have to maintain". The title "Princess of Wales" as used here did not have its usual accepted meaning.<ref name=":2">{{cite book |author=Fisher, Deborah |title=Princesses of Wales |publisher=University of Wales Press |year=2005 |isbn=9780708319369 |pages=viii-ix}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

=== Margaret Hanmer and Catrin, daughter of Glyndŵr ===
[[Margaret Hanmer]], sometimes known as Marred ferch Dafydd (her Welsh name), was the wife of [[Owain Glyndŵr]].<ref>The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog. 1. London: T. Richards. pp. 199, 211–219. The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog. 1. London: T. Richards. pp. 199, 211–219.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Owain Glyndwr – The Parish of Hanmer and Tallarn Green |url=https://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/a110/history-en/owain-glyndwr/ |access-date=2019-06-12 |website=parish.churchinwales.org.uk |archive-date=5 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005164802/https://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/a110/history-en/owain-glyndwr/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Some modern historians have accorded her the title "Princess of Wales".<ref>Deborah Fisher, ''Princesses of Wales'' (University of Wales Press, 2005)</ref>

[[Catrin ferch Owain Glyndŵr|Catrin]] was one of the children of Owain Glyndŵr and Margaret Hanmer. In November 1402, she married [[Edmund Mortimer (rebel)|Edmund Mortimer]], the second son of [[Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March]] and through his mother, a great-grandson of [[Edward III of England]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Gwynfor Evans |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3lkKAQAAMAAJ |title=Land of my fathers: 2000 years of Welsh history |publisher=John Penry Press |year=1974 |isbn=9780903701037 |access-date=5 October 2022 |archive-date=13 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113214043/https://books.google.com/books?id=3lkKAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Edmund Mortimer died during the siege of [[Harlech Castle]] in 1409, of unknown causes.<ref>''The Last Mab Darogan'', Charles Parry (Novasys, 2010) pp. 273–4.</ref> Catrin was subsequently captured alongside her three daughters, and they were taken to the [[Tower of London]], along with Catrin's mother and one of her sisters. The deaths and burials of Catrin and her daughters are recorded, but the causes of their deaths remain unknown. They were laid to rest at [[St Swithin, London Stone|St Swithin's Church]] in London.<ref>''Issues of the Exchequer, Hen. III – Hen. VI'', ed. F Devon (Record Commission, 1837), p. 327</ref>

=== List ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Image
! Name 
! Birth
! width="150pt" |Spouse
!Death
!Notes
|-
| align="center" | [[File:Joan, Lady of Wales (cropped).jpg|150x150px]]
| align="center" | [[Joan, Lady of Wales|Joan]]
| align="center" | 1191
| align="center" | [[Llywelyn ab Iorwerth]]
| align="center" | 2 February 1237
|align="center" |''Known as '''Siwan''' in [[Welsh language|Welsh]];<br/>Lady of Wales and Snowdon;<ref>{{Cite book |last=Messer |first=Danna R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhsJEAAAQBAJ&dq=joan+lady+of+wales&pg=PA172 |title=Joan, Lady of Wales: Power and Politics of King John's Daughter |date=2020-09-30 |publisher=Pen and Sword History |isbn=978-1-5267-2932-3 |pages=172 |language=en}}</ref><br/>Proposed to have been Princess of Wales<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sims-Williams |first=Patrick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QABREAAAQBAJ&dq=siwan+tywysoges+cymru&pg=PA297 |title=Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature |date=2010-11-25 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-159159-4 |pages=297 |language=en |access-date=23 October 2022 |archive-date=13 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113214052/https://books.google.com/books?id=QABREAAAQBAJ&dq=siwan+tywysoges+cymru&pg=PA297 |url-status=live }}</ref>''
|-
|
| align="center" | [[Isabella de Braose]]
| align="center" | 1222
| align="center" | [[Dafydd ap Llywelyn]]
| align="center" | 1248
|align="center" | ''Proposed to have been Princess of Wales''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fisher |first=Deborah C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mrUIAQAAMAAJ&q=princess+of+wales+Isabella+de+braose |title=Princesses of Wales |date=2005 |publisher=University of Wales Press |isbn=978-0-7083-1936-9 |pages=6 |language=en |access-date=23 October 2022 |archive-date=13 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113214051/https://books.google.com/books?id=mrUIAQAAMAAJ&q=princess+of+wales+Isabella+de+braose |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| align="center" | [[File:Eleanor_de_Montfort.png|100px]]
| align="center" | [[Eleanor de Montfort, Princess of Wales|Eleanor de Montfort]]
| align="center" | 1252 
| align="center" | [[Llywelyn ap Gruffudd|Llywelyn ap Gruffydd]]
| align="center" | 19 June 1282
|align="center" | ''Princess of Wales;<br/>Lady of Snowdon''<ref name=":3"/><ref name=":5"/><ref name=":6"/>
|-
| align="center" | [[File:Bedd_y_Dywysoges_Elizabeth_Ferrers,_gwraig_Dafydd_ap_Gruffudd_10.jpg|100px]]
| align="center" | [[Elizabeth Ferrers]]
| align="center" | 1250
| align="center" | [[Dafydd ap Gruffydd]]
| align="center" | 1300
| align="center" | ''Proposed to have been Princess of Wales''{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}
|-
|
|align="center" |[[Gwenllian of Wales|Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn]]
|align="center" | June 1282
|
|align="center" | 7 June 1337
|align="center" | ''Princess of Wales;<ref name=":2" /><br/>daughter of [[Llywelyn ap Gruffudd|Llywelyn ap Gruffydd]]''
|-
||
|align="center" | [[Margaret Hanmer]]
|align="center" | 1370
|align="center" | [[Owain Glyndŵr]]
|align="center" | 1420
|align="center" | ''Later attributed''<ref>Deborah Fisher, ''Princesses of Wales'' (University of Wales Press, 2005)</ref>
|-
|align="center" |
|align="center" | [[Catrin ferch Owain Glyndŵr]]
|
|align="center" | [[Edmund Mortimer (rebel)|Edmund Mortimer]]
|align="center" | 1413
|align="center" | ''Proposed to have been Princess of Wales;<br/>daughter of [[Owain Glyndŵr]]''<ref>''Issues of the Exchequer, Hen. III – Hen. VI'', ed. F Devon (Record Commission, 1837), p. 327</ref>
|}

== Spouse of the British (formerly English) heir apparent ==
[[Joan of Kent]] married Prince of Wales, her cousin [[Edward the Black Prince]], in early 1361; their marriage lacked needed dispensation and was annulled in the same year, but afterwards the pair was granted necessary documents by the Pope, and married again, making Joan the Princess of Wales for the second time.<ref>Shaw, Amy (2002). ''Joan of Kent: Life and Legends''. The Ohio State University. p. 55.</ref>

[[Cecily Neville, Duchess of York|Cecily Neville]], wife of [[Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York]], is omitted from this list. While her husband was briefly given various titles, including Prince of Wales, by an [[Act of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Act of Parliament]] as part of his arrangement to succeed [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]], he is not generally recognised as such and is not mentioned in any published summary of the topic.

Although not granted the title in her own right, the future [[Mary I of England|Mary I]] was, during her youth, invested by her father, [[Henry VIII]], with many of the rights and properties traditionally given to the Prince of Wales, including the use of the official seal of Wales for correspondence. For most of her childhood, Mary was her father's only legitimate child, and for this reason, she was often referred to as the Prince(ss) of Wales, although Henry never formally created her as such. For example, contemporary scholar [[Juan Luis Vives]] dedicated his ''Satellitium Animi'' to "Dominæ Mariæ Cambriæ Principi, Henrici Octavi Angliæ Regis Filiæ" ("Lady Mary, Prince of Wales, Daughter of Henry VIII, King of England").<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vives |first=Juan Luis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L64RAAAAYAAJ&pg=1 |title=Satellitium animi |date=1883 |publisher=Apud A. Pichleri viduam et filium |language=la |access-date=8 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113214128/https://books.google.com/books?id=L64RAAAAYAAJ&pg=1 |archive-date=13 January 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Welsh politicians suggested that [[George VI]]'s elder daughter, [[Elizabeth II|Princess Elizabeth]] (later Queen Elizabeth II), be granted the title on her 18th birthday, but he rejected the idea because he felt such a title belonged solely to the wife of a Prince of Wales and the Prince of Wales had always been the title of the [[heir apparent]].<ref name=Pimlott>{{Cite book |last=Pimlott |first=Ben |title=The Queen: Elizabeth II and the monarchy |date=2001 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-711435-4 |edition=Golden Jubilee |location=London |oclc=59496079}}</ref>

[[Queen Camilla|Camilla]], [[Charles III]]'s second wife, was the Princess of Wales from 2005 to 2022, but did not use the title due to its popular association with her husband's first wife, [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Diana]]. Camilla chose to be known as "[[Duchess of Cornwall]]" instead, which is traditionally a subsidiary title.<ref name="parliament">{{Cite web |title=House of Commons – Royal Marriage |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/vo050404/text/50404w42.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626234155/https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/vo050404/text/50404w42.htm |archive-date=26 June 2009 |access-date=7 February 2015 |publisher=parliament.uk}}</ref>

On 9 September 2022, a day after his accession to the throne, Charles III bestowed the title of "Prince of Wales" upon his elder son, [[William, Prince of Wales|William]], making his wife, [[Catherine, Princess of Wales|Catherine]], the Princess of Wales.<ref>{{Cite web |last=RegalFille |date=2022-09-09 |title=The New Prince and Princess of Wales |url=https://www.regalfille.com/2022/09/the-new-Prince-and-Princess-of-wales |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=RegalFille |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== List ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Image
! width=200|Previous name
!Coat of Arms
! Birth
! Marriage
! width="100px" | Became Princess of Wales
! width="150px" | Spouse
! width="150px" | Change in style
! Death
! Notes

|-
| [[File:Joan of Kent.jpg|100px]]
| [[Joan of Kent|'''Joan''' of Kent]]
|
| 19 September 1328
| colspan=2 | Early 1361 (1st time);<br />10 October 1361 (2nd time)
| [[Edward of Woodstock]] (both times)
| 1361<br />''Marriage annulled'' (1st time);<br /> 
7 June 1376 (2nd time)<br />''Husband's death;<br />became [[Dowager]] Princess of Wales''
| 7 August 1385
| &nbsp;

|-
| [[File:Anne Neville portrait.jpg|100px]]
| [[Anne Neville|'''Anne''' Neville]]
|
| 11 June 1456
| colspan=2 | 13 December 1470
| [[Edward of Westminster]]
| 4 May 1471<br/>''Husband's death;<br/>became Dowager Princess of Wales''
| 16 March 1485
| ''Later became [[List of English royal consorts|queen consort]] as the wife of [[Richard III]]''

|-
| [[File:Catalina de Aragón, por un artista anónimo.jpg|100px]]
| [[Catherine of Aragon|'''Catherine''' of Aragon]]
|
| 16 December 1485
| colspan=2 | {{Small|19 May 1499 (by proxy)}}<br/> 14 November 1501
| [[Arthur Tudor]]
| 2 April 1502<br/>''Husband's death;<br/>became Dowager Princess of Wales''<ref>Courtney Herber, 'Katherine of Aragon: Diligent Diplomat and Learned Queen', Aidan Norrie, ''Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), p. 58.</ref>
| 7 January 1536
| ''Later became queen consort as the wife of&nbsp;[[Henry VIII]]''

|-
| [[File:Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg|100px]]
| [[Caroline of Ansbach|Wilhelmina Charlotte '''Caroline''' of Brandenburg-Ansbach]]
|
| 1 March 1683
| 22 August 1705
| 27 September 1714<ref>e.g. copies of [[London Gazette]], 1714–1727.</ref>
| [[George II of Great Britain|George Augustus]]
| 11 June 1727<br/>''Husband acceded to throne as '''George II''';<br/>became [[List of British royal consorts|queen consort]]''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Arkell |first=R. L. |title=Caroline of Ansbach |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1939 |location=London |page=160}}</ref>
| 20 November 1737
| &nbsp;

|-
| [[File:Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales by Charles Philips.jpg|100px]]
| [[Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg|'''Augusta''' of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg]]
|[[File:Coat of Arms of Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Princess of Wales.svg|frameless|76x76px]]
| 30 November 1719
| colspan=2 | 17 April 1736<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=7984 |date=27 January 1740 |page=1}}</ref>
| [[Frederick, Prince of Wales|Frederick Louis]]
| 31 March 1751<br/>''Husband's death;<br/>became Dowager Princess of Wales''
| 8 February 1772
| &nbsp;

|-
| [[File:Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.jpg|100px]]
| [[Caroline of Brunswick|'''Caroline''' Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]
|
| 17 May 1768
| colspan=2 | 8 April 1795<ref>Robins, Jane (2006). ''Rebel Queen: The Trial of Queen Caroline''. Simon & Schuster. p. 80. {{ISBN|978-0-74324-862-4}}</ref>
| [[George IV|George Augustus Frederick]]
| 29 January 1820<br/>''Husband acceded to throne as '''George IV''';<br/>became queen consort''<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=17683 |date=24 February 1821 |page=467}}</ref>
| 7 August 1821
| &nbsp;

|-
| [[File:Queen Alexandra, the Princess of Wales.jpg|100px]]
| [[Alexandra of Denmark|'''Alexandra''' Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia of Denmark]]
|[[File:Coat of Arms of Alexandra of Denmark as Princess of Wales.svg|frameless|76x76px]]
| 1 December 1844
| colspan=2 | 10 March 1863<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=7310|page=357|date=17 March 1863|city=e}}</ref>
| [[Edward VII|Albert Edward]]
| 22 January 1901<br/>''Husband acceded to throne as '''Edward VII''';<br/>became queen consort''<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27284 |date=12 February 1901 |page=1139 |supp=y}}</ref>
| 20 November 1925
| &nbsp;

|-
| [[File:Mary, Princess of Wales, 1905.jpg|100px]]
| [[Mary of Teck|Victoria '''Mary''' Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes of Teck]]
|[[File:Coat of Arms of Mary of Teck as Princess of Wales.svg|frameless|76x76px]]
| 26 May 1867
| 6 July 1893
| 9 November 1901<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27382|page=8559|date=3 December 1901}}</ref>
| [[George V|George Frederick Ernest Albert]]
| 6 May 1910<br/>''Husband acceded to throne as '''George V''';<br/>became queen consort''<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28401|page=5485|date=26 July 1910|supp=1}}</ref>
| 24 March 1953
| &nbsp;

|-
| [[File:Princess Diana 1985.jpg|100px]]
| [[Diana, Princess of Wales|'''Diana''' Frances Spencer]]
|[[File:Coat of Arms of Diana, Princess of Wales (1981-1996).svg|frameless|76x76px]]
| 1 July 1961
| colspan=2 | 29 July 1981<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diana/stories/glamor0901.htm|title= International Special Report: Princess Diana, 1961–1997|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=30 January 1999|access-date=13 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000819020342/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diana/stories/glamor0901.htm|archive-date=19 August 2000|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
| rowspan=2 | [[Charles III|Charles Philip Arthur George]]
| 28 August 1996<br/>''Divorced;<br/>assumed the style of Diana, Princess of Wales''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.royal.uk/diana-princess-wales|title=Diana, Princess of Wales|work=The Royal Family|access-date=21 April 2023}}</ref>
| 31 August 1997
| &nbsp;

|-
| [[File:CHOGM Commonwealth Big Lunch on April 17, 2018 - 007 (cropped).jpg|100px]]
| [[Queen Camilla|'''Camilla''' Rosemary Shand]]
|[[File:Coat of Arms of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.svg|frameless|76x76px]]
| 17 July 1947
| colspan=2 | 9 April 2005<ref>{{cite Hansard |jurisdiction=United Kingdom |title=Royal Marriage |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/vo050404/text/50404w42.htm#column_1228 |house=House of Commons |date=4 April 2005 |column=1228W |speaker=Chris Leslie |position=Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs }} {{Cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/vo050404/text/50404w42.htm |title=House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 4 Apr 2005 (Pt 42) |access-date=8 September 2017 |archive-date=26 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626234155/https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/vo050404/text/50404w42.htm |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=13 November 2018 |title=The Royal Title that Camilla and Princess Diana Shared |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/culture/princess-diana-camilla-title-17673 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103004958/https://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/culture/princess-diana-camilla-title-17673 |archive-date=3 January 2019 |access-date=2 January 2019 |magazine=Harper's Bazaar |quote=When she married Prince Charles, "Camilla was not popular or well liked, [though] this has changed a lot since the marriage as Camilla has taken on a lot of patronages and Charles is a lot happier," [Marlene] Koenig says. "Still, [there was] a lot of tension and anger among a certain element of the population—so it was decided that Camilla would be styled as the Duchess of Cornwall, even though, of course, she is the Princess of Wales."}}</ref>
| 8 September 2022<br/>''Husband acceded to throne as '''Charles III''';<br/>became queen consort''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/camilla-just-queen-following-coronation-royal-family-shelves-consort-title-rebrand-2324350|title=Camilla is now just 'the Queen' following coronation as Royal Family shelves consort title in rebrand|work=inews.co.uk|first=Steve|last=Robson|date=7 May 2023|accessdate=23 May 2023|archive-date=4 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604043302/https://inews.co.uk/news/camilla-just-queen-following-coronation-royal-family-shelves-consort-title-rebrand-2324350|url-status=live}}</ref>
| living
| ''Known as [[Duchess of Cornwall]] during her tenure''
|-
| [[File:Princess of Wales at State Banquet 2025-09-17 (0.75 crop).jpg|100px]]
| [[Catherine, Princess of Wales|'''Catherine''' Elizabeth Middleton]]
|[[File:Coat of arms of Catherine, Princess of Wales.svg|frameless|76x76px]]
| 9 January 1982
| 29 April 2011
| 9 September 2022<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 September 2022 |title=King Charles III pays tribute to his 'darling mama' in first address |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-62842089/page/7 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912173911/https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-62842089/page/7 |archive-date=12 September 2022 |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=BBC.com}}</ref>
| [[William, Prince of Wales|William Arthur Philip Louis]]
| ''Incumbent''
| living
| &nbsp;
|}

==See also==
*The [[Green Howards]] (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
*[[Princess of Wales' Own Regiment|The Princess of Wales' Own Regiment]] (Canada)

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
*''Princesses of Wales'' by Deborah Fisher. University of Wales Press, 2005.
* 'Tystiolaeth Garth Celyn' Y Traethodydd 1998 {{ISSN|0969-8930}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book|first=M.|last=Fryer|author2=Mary Beacock Fryer |author3=Arthur Bousfield |author4=Garry Toffoli |title=Lives of the Princesses of Wales|publisher=Dundern Press Limited|location=Toronto|year=1983|isbn=978-0-919670-69-3}}

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