No. The Queen is the reigning monarch and in a monarchy, a King outranks a Queen. Seeing as he married into the existing monarchy, he has to accept a lesser title, since an "outsider" and a "commoner", to boot, could not become the ruling monarch.

And while we're on the subject...

I see a lot of plain wrong information regarding the way things work over here but in simple terms it's like this:

Although Parliament works in the name of the crown, the reality is the position of monarch is an apolitical figurehead with no real authority. In theory, the monarch could invoke all sorts of stuff but the reality is that it would cause a constitutional crisis and possibly a civil war. Seeing as nobody in particular wants that, the monarch goes along with the wishes of Parliament. It's a kind of convenient legal fiction, which works in favour of the government of the day, since the armed forces serve the monarch, not the current incumbent Prime Minister.

Myself, I favour a republic and as such, do not want a monarchy. But that's another story.

Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.

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