According to a source, the royal women not only curtsy to one another in public, but from the comfort of their own homes too.
Just as public citizens do when meeting a royal, it's common to see members of the family showing respect while greeting each other — men bow their heads while women dip into a curtsy. However, there are a few rules involved depending on rank.
There are no obligatory codes of behaviour when meeting The Queen or a member of the Royal Family, but many people wish to observe the traditional forms. For men this is a neck bow (from the head only) whilst women do a small curtsy.
The one concise rule is that all members of the Royal Family are required to bow or curtsy to King Charles and Queen Camilla.
All royals are expected to bow or curtsy to the sovereign and his wife, King Charles and Queen Camilla. Since he ascended to the throne, Prince William and Princess Kate have been seen formally greeting the monarch with a bow and curtsy on multiple occasions.
According to protocol, Meghan is supposed to curtsy to those who outrank her. This includes the Queen, Prince Phillip, Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla. Because William is due to be the future King of England, he also receives a curtsy, and by extension so does Kate Middleton.
You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Unclear if this was an intentional snub, but what we do know is that Prince William–and every member of the British royal family—is expected to bow to Queen Camilla.
This is no longer the case, and instead, these Princesses must curtsey to Camilla as she outranks them. This of course means that Princess Anne is forced to ignore her 'blood Princess' title when it comes to greeting Camilla.
A friend of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh toldDaily Mail: "Sophie is relieved. She no longer has to curtsy to someone in the family who has not only left Royal duties but has spent the past three years criticising the institution that Sophie works so hard to support."
According to Royal protocol, Kate, along with other female members of the family including Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, Meghan Markle and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, must curtsey to the King and Queen Camilla as they are the most senior members of the family and male royals are expected to bow their heads.
Even royals bow and curtsy to the monarch.
All royals are expected to bow or curtsy to the sovereign and his wife, King Charles and Queen Camilla. Since he ascended to the throne, Prince William and Princess Kate have been seen formally greeting the monarch with a bow and curtsy on multiple occasions.
The Queen bowed her head as a sign of respect to her late daughter-in-law, Princess Diana.
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There are no official rules forbidding public displays of affection, but the late Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip set a precedent encouraging royals to keep touching to a minimum.
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"But there is no hard and fast rule, and if you can't do it or don't feel comfortable doing it or don't want to do it that's fine; it doesn't mean you hold the queen in any less respect and you won't be sent to the Tower." Another royal source added, "People do tend to bow or curtsy to the queen, and that's just good ...
Who curtseys to Kate? Excluding the Queen, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, everyone, when the Duchess of Cambridge IS in the company of her husband, do bow or curtsy to her. Prince William is a future King and therefore Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge is a future Queen Consort.
It is known that before the Queen, who is the symbol of national unity, everyone bowed. But that day, it is Elizabeth who bowed her head as a sign of respect for the passage of Diana's coffin, the woman who more than anyone else had defied the conventions of the Palace."
She became the Duchess of Edinburgh in 2023
On his birthday in 2023, Edward was made the Duke of Edinburgh, and Sophie became the Duchess of Edinburgh, a title previously held by her late mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth.
Since Charles has taken to the throne, the tradition has changed so that now, in the Royal order, Camilla has outranked Princess Anne - meaning all the royal women in the family must (and will) curtsy to her.
Although Anne is older than two of her brothers, she is farther down the line of succession because of an old law that allowed men to skip over women in the line.
Anne and Charles' relationship deepened as they grew up together. Out of Elizabeth and Prince Philip's four children, Anne and Charles are closest in age. Charles, who was born in November 1948, is 21 months older than Anne.
Andersen said that Diana found out that "Charles always loved Camilla" on the eve of their wedding — and noted that Camilla actually was involved in initiating the coupling of Charles and Diana in the first place (another tidbit: Charles also dated Diana's elder sister).
According to Bedell Smith, right from the start Charles adored the then-Camilla Shand, who's close in age to Charles (Diana was 13 years younger) and has always treated him as an equal rather than as someone she idolized. However, the royal family wasn't interested in having Camilla as its princess.
Since the change in her title from Duchess of Cambridge to Princess of Wales, Kate no longer curtsies to Beatrice and Eugenie.