Editing Regnal number (section)

==Queens consort==

While reigning monarchs use ordinals, ordinals are not used for royal female consorts. Thus, while [[George V|King George V]] used an ordinal to distinguish him from other kings in the United Kingdoms called George, his wife, [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]], had no ordinal.

The lack of an ordinal in the case of royal consorts complicates the recording of history, as there may be a number of consorts over time with the same name with no way to distinguish between them. For that reason, royal consorts are sometimes after their deaths recorded in history books and encyclopaedias by the use of their premarital name or, if they were from royalty or sovereign nobility, the name of the dynasty or the country. For example, [[Henry VIII of England]]'s fifth wife, [[Katherine Howard]] (of noble but not sovereign ancestry), is known by her maiden surname, and [[George V]]'s wife (a descendant of the sovereign ducal house of Württemburg) is commonly known as [[Mary of Teck]] (after her father's title) and [[Edward VII]]'s wife (a daughter of the King of Denmark) is known as [[Alexandra of Denmark]].