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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 339956" data-attributes="member: 5079">Short answer is that Mary I was England's first official Queen Regnant and there wasn't much precedent to follow.  There was a special Act passed by Parliament to cover Mary's marriage to Phillip, allowing him to be co-regent.  That Act was  later repealed.Generally speaking, a King would be presumed to outrank a Queen, even if they were co-rulers.  A man who married a Queen wouldn't automatically become anything.  I believe that holds true of all British titles; an untitled man who marries, say, a Duchess, wouldn't become a Duke.  Phillip was made a Duke prior to his marriage to Elizabeth, and she made him a Prince a few years later.</blockquote>