List of current consorts of sovereigns

List of current consorts of sovereigns

Europe

Picture	Name	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Spouse
	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	10 June 1921	20 November 1947	6 February 1952	Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
	Queen Sonja of Norway	4 July 1937	29 August 1968	17 January 1991	Harald V of Norway
	Queen Silvia of Sweden	23 December 1943	19 June 1976		Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
	Prince Henrik, Count of Monpezat	11 June 1934	10 June 1967	14 January 1972	Margrethe II of Denmark
	Queen Mathilde of Belgium	20 January 1973	4 December 1999	21 July 2013	Philippe of Belgium
	Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg	22 March 1956	14 February 1981	7 October 2000	Henri of Luxembourg
	Queen Letizia of Spain	15 September 1972	22 May 2004	19 June 2014	Felipe VI of Spain
	Princess Charlene of Monaco	25 January 1978	1 July 2011		Albert II of Monaco
	Princess Marie of Liechtenstein	14 April 1940	30 July 1967	13 November 1989	Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein
	Queen Máxima of the Netherlands	17 May 1971	2 February 2002	30 April 2013	Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

Africa

Picture	Name	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Spouse
	Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco	10 May 1978	12 October 2001	21 March 2002	Mohammed VI of Morocco
	Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho	2 June 1976	18 February 2000		Letsie III of Lesotho
	Queen Inkhosikati LaMatsebula of Swaziland[1]	6 June 1969	1992		Mswati III of Swaziland

Asia

Picture	Name	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Spouse
	Empress Michiko of Japan	20 October 1934	10 April 1959	7 January 1989	Akihito of Japan
	Queen Rania of Jordan	31 August 1970	10 June 1993	7 February 1999	Abdullah II of Jordan
	Sultanah Saleha of Brunei	7 October 1946	29 July 1965	4 October 1967	Hassanal Bolkiah
	Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan	4 June 1990	13 October 2011		Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
	Sultanah Haminah Hamidun of Malaysia	15 July 1953	25 December 1975	13 December 2011	Abdul Halim
	Queen Sabika bint Ibrahim of Bahrain	1948	9 October 1968	14 February 2002	Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa
	Sheikha Jawahir bint Hamad of Qatar		8 January 2005	25 June 2013	Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
	Sheikha Shamsa of United Arab Emirates	1971	1994	3 November 2004	Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Oceania

Picture	Name	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Spouse
	Queen Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho of Tonga	8 March 1954	11 December 1982	18 March 2012	Tupou VI of Tonga

The sovereigns who have not yet married

• Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia.
• Pope Francis, being an ordained priest of the Catholic Church, is sworn to celibacy.

The sovereign who is divorced

• Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan of Oman. He married his first cousin Sayyida Nawwal bint Tariq Al-Said (born in 1951) in Muscat. The marriage ended in divorce in 1979. She remarried in 2005.^[2][3]
• Maha Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand. Three times divorced.

The sovereign who is widowed

• Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait. He married his second aunt Sheikha Fatuwah bint Salman Al-Sabah (first cousin of his father). She died before the Iraqi invasion to Kuwait on 2 August 1990.

References

1. Succession to the Swazi throne. May 11 2013
2. Joseph A. Kechichian (December 17, 2010). "Sultan Qaboos Bin Saeed: A democrat visionary". Weekend Review. Gulf News. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
3. Royal Ark