Elizabeth Ii Or Iii?? ((Serious Answers Only))

[IzzyGyrl]

So HM Queen Elizabeth II...she's the second because of Queen Elizabeth from the 1500s? But Elizabeth the II's mother was also Elizabeth....Elizabeth Bowes Lyon...so wouldn't Her Majesty Be Queen Elizabeth III in actuality? ((SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY PLEASE))

[jackthehat]

No.
Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was the wife of the King (George VI) and not a queen in her own right, so she doesn't get a number.

[Baldric]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_The_Queen_Mother

[mushroom25]

although there is a dispute as to the present queen's regnal number as applicable to Scotland, as the first queen Elizabeth (of England) reigned before the act of union.......

[ToraToraTora]

no, the queen mum was a queen consort not a Queen monarch.

[jno]

there's only one way to be a king, and that's sitting on the throne. But there are two ways of being a queen: sitting on the throne ("queen regnant") or marrying a king ("queen consort"). The latter don't count for numbering purposes, only queens regnant do.

[Samuraisan]

Regnant ?

[Prudie]

What non serious answers were you concerned about?

[jno]

Prudie there have been quite a few sneering answers on serious threads lately, deriding the OP's lack of knowledge etc. It's a shame people have to ask for serious answers, when that ought to be the norm.

[IzzyGyrl]

@Prudie you wouldn't believe how many people do jokes instead of give me a legit answer!

[jno]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_regnant

[Prudie]

Gotcha, just looked at your other questions :-)

[THECORBYLOON]

As a result of the dispute over the current Queens regnal number, future monarchs will use the higher of the Scots and English regnal numbers.

[Jackdaw33]

Corby is correct. This question first arose at the accession of William IV and later at that of Edward VII, when it was decided that the higher of two regnal numbers would be used. As there is no king/queen of England/Scotland, but only of the UK, this means that should we ever have another King James he will be styled James VIII and not James III.

[Jackdaw33]

Incidentally there have been four queens consort named Anne: Ann of Bohemia (Richard II), Anne Neville (Richard III), Anne Boleyn (Henry VIII) and Anne of Denmark (James I). But only one queen regnant of that name who has no regnal number.