Talk:Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
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[edit] Move
I moved this page from Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg since discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles) seems to suggest Queen consort titles are dropped. --Jiang 09:39, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Style box
For the last couple of days there's been a revert battle going on between several editors about the box showing Queen Ena's styles. Rather than continue this revert battle, how about a discussion?
The box gives a "Reference style - Her Majesty", a "Spoken style - Your Majesty" and an "Alternative style - Ma'am". Although Ena was raised speaking English, that wasn't the language of the court where she was consort. Her reference style was "Sua Majestade Catolica" (in English, usually, Her Most Catholic Majesty). Only in England would somebody have addressed her as "Ma'am".
While I wouldn't use the word "silly" to describe the box, I don't feel that it is very useful. Certainly if it's going to be kept (and I would vote no), the information should be more accurate. Noel S McFerran 03:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- So how about this...since we started using the infoboxes to keep styles out of the opening paragraph (an ongoing battle, but that is for another discussion). Are there any ideas comments about using an adjusted infobox for Victoria Eugenie. I would put the Spanish in, but being English WP, I thought wp:use english. Prsgoddess187 12:19, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
| Styles of Queen Victoria Eugenia as consort |
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| Reference style | Her Most Catholic Majesty |
| Spoken style | Your Most Catholic Majesty |
| Alternative style | no alternative |
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- I have to ask what the point of this style box is (having already questioned the accuracy of the information provided there). It is not usual in an encyclopedia article (except in Wikipedia) to provide the style of a particular royal. Indeed, even in a book-length biography of Ena, I'm not sure that one would find such information. Such information might be useful for a living royal, but I can't see how it is for somebody historical. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a collection of peculiar tidbits of information (there's a difference). Noel S McFerran 03:37, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- FWIW sua majestade catolica is not Spanish...sounds funny though User:Ejrrjs says What? 23:19, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Eugenie vs. Eugenia
User:ObRoy moved this page to Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg. However, she was born with the name Victoria Eugenie. Should it be moved back? How are queen-consorts handled when they have a name change? Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse is at her married name + maiden title, so should this be here as well? Morhange 23:08, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
