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(1,639 posts). . . would be a Queen Consort. Queens can be regnal, i.e, the actual monarch, the consort/spouse of the monarch or the mother of the monarch.
Kings reign or they're dead.
What was unusual about Camilla was that she never became the Princess of Wales, because Diana's fans would not have had that. Those were the people that the RF had in mind when they proposed Camilla being called the "Princess Consort" when Charles became king, because people had their hearts set on Diana as the eventual Queen. The word "consort" added to a Queen married to the British king would be sort of redundant for either Diana or Camilla.
So, either people will accept Camilla as Queen, or not. The real stickiness might come when Charles dies and William succeeds. Will people tolerate Camilla being known as "The Queen Mother" when Diana was William's actual mother?