Editing Style (form of address) (section)

====Styles existing through marriage in the United Kingdom====
Styles can be acquired through marriage, although traditionally this applies more to wives of office-holders than to husbands. Thus, in the [[United Kingdom]], [[Anne, Princess Royal]], is styled Her Royal Highness (HRH), her husband, Sir [[Timothy Laurence]], bears no courtesy style by virtue of being her husband (although his mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II, has since knighted him), nor do her children bear any title or style, by right or tradition, despite being in the line of succession to the Crown, until 2015 subject to the [[Royal Marriages Act 1772]]. In contrast, when [[Sophie, Countess of Wessex|Sophie Rhys-Jones]] married [[Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex|Prince Edward]], she became HRH the Countess of Wessex (&c.) and their children are entitled (although they do not use them) to the princely prefix and the style of HRH, and do bear [[courtesy title]]s derived from their father.

Styles and titles can change when a marriage is dissolved. The Lady [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Diana Frances Spencer]] held the style Her Royal Highness during her marriage to HRH The Prince of Wales and the title [[Princess of Wales]]. When the couple divorced she lost her style: she became instead ''Diana, Princess of Wales''. (although she fit the criteria which customarily accords the prefix of "Lady" to the daughter of an earl, and she had been known as such prior to marriage, she did not revert to that title following divorce).

When applied to the current [[Princess of Wales]], inclusion of a definite article ("The Princess of Wales"), is, like HRH, part of the style which accompanies the title.  When [[Charles III|King Charles III]] (Then; HRH the Prince of Wales) was remarried to [[Camilla Parker-Bowles]] in compliance with the Royal Marriages Act, she lawfully became HRH The Princess of Wales but, as was the announced intention prior to the couple's wedding, she continues to use the lesser title derived from her husband's [[Duchy of Cornwall]] and was known as HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, until the accession of her husband as King, because of the strong association to the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

From the divorce until her death in 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales ceased to hold any royal style, although the monarch declared that she remained a Princess of the United Kingdom and in occasions when members of the Royal Family appeared in public, she continued to be accorded the same royal precedence.

When [[Sarah, Duchess of York|Sarah Ferguson]] was divorced from her husband, HRH [[Prince Andrew, Duke of York]], she too lost her HRH style, the rank as a British Princess and was re-styled as "Sarah, Duchess of York".

In 1936, [[Wallis Simpson]] was denied the HRH style by [[George VI]] when she married his older brother, the former [[Edward VIII]], who became HRH the Duke of Windsor following his abdication and receipt of a peerage.