The Queen announced her honorees on New Year’s Day.  At long last, Joan Collins made the cut; she must henceforth be refer to as Dame Joan Collins.  And this got me thinking – now that Sir Elton John and David Furnish are legally married in the United Kingdom, shouldn’t David now be referred to as Lady Furnish (or, to be precise, Lady John).  After all, when someone is a Sir, his wife (if she takes his name) is accorded the courtesy title of Lady.  Because the British honours system has not been updated to reflect same-sex marriage, Furnish ends up with nothing.  And yet, someone did go to the trouble to write what I find to be a very strange codicil: if the Prince of Wales (aka a future King of England) were to marry a man, his spouse would NOT get the title Queen or Princess.  Let’s start guessing which prince inspired this bit of legislation.