Talk:Shining Armor/@comment-1711382-20120417201501/@comment-92.40.254.159-20120422065834

In British Royalty it is customary for the Monarch to offer an earldom to a non-titled male who marries a Princess from the Royal Family. For example, Anthony Armstrong-Jones became Earl of Snowdon when he married Princess Margaret (sister of Queen Elizabeth II). It can, however be refused, which is what the husbands of Princess Anne (Captain Mark Philips and Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence) did.