Answering your questions This week brought royalty to the U.S., with a visit from the United Kingdom’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla tied to the America 250 celebration. It also sparked this question from one of our readers: - Why are they called King Charles and Queen Camilla, while his mother was Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip. Why was he not King Philip?
I, too, had wondered why Philip’s title had never changed. Fortunately, I have some colleagues who have dived into this over the years. When Philip died in 2021 at 99, my colleague Monica Hesse explained it like this: … because of a long-standing tradition within the British monarchy. “King” was typically reserved for active monarchs. “Queen,” however, could simply be a symbolic, wifely role. If Philip had been called “king consort,” then people might assume he outranked his wife. “Prince” was a way of signaling that she was the one in charge. | | | | Which brings us to Camilla’s title. When she and Charles married in 2005 — Charles’s second marriage — it was declared that she would be known as princess consort. When Elizabeth died in 2022, Camilla was given the title of queen consort — per the wishes of the late queen. But when her husband was crowned that May, she was too, and given the title Queen Camilla. So tradition goes a long way in the monarchy. But, given the nature of that dynamic, a monarch can change the rules — unwritten or otherwise — with a simple declaration. What else to know Thanks for your great questions. Now, keep ’em coming. If you want to ask us about news you’ve seen in The 7, send questions here. (That’s a new link and system this week — apologies for any confusion.) We’ll find the right person to answer them for another weekend edition. Keep reading Each weekend, The 7 team shares our favorite recent Post stories with you.  | Hannah Jewell | “The Devil Wears Prada 2” is out this weekend, and columnist Monica Hesse has the hottest of takes: a final, definitive ruling on whether Andy’s boyfriend Nate was indeed a jerk in the original.  | Izin Akhabau | I’ve been reading about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently, so I’m interested to see how the lawsuit against his company plays out. Elon Musk has accused Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman of betraying the company’s nonprofit status to enrich themselves.  | Jamie Ross | Border collies Hercules and Ned are a real-life paw patrol, helping protect planes from bird strikes at a West Virginia airport. They’ve become local celebrities, so we went to meet them.  | John Taylor | The first story I read this week was my friend Maura Judkis’s first-person account of hearing a gunshot and diving under a table at the White House correspondents’ dinner last weekend. | 
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