^ Prior to her marriage both Clarence House and the Lord Chancellor confirmed that Camilla would automatically and legally be Princess of Wales, but had chosen to be referred to as Duchess of Cornwall.
^ The only possible exception occurred in 1525 when King Henry VIII of England gave his only surviving child to that point, Mary I of England, certain Royal Prerogatives due to a Prince of Wales, including a Royal Court, and called her Princess of Wales. There is no record of either the existence of a Prince of Wales' crown at that time, nor of a formal patent granting the title.
