Talk:Your Character (The Royal Romance)/@comment-38034386-20200518132427/@comment-37484301-20200518140121

I assume it's more of a "contemporary" thing, like how the press/media address Meghan Markle & Prince Harry even though she is married to him and probably has his last name, everyone keeps calling her "Meghan Markle".

Pushing that aside, I think it has to do with coding on the game. It's probably easier to code it as "your maiden name" and "what you chose as your daughter's name + your maiden name" then to figure out "if you marry Liam, Drake, or Maxwell, your name changes and your daughter name changes; but if you marry Hana, does your last name change to Lee - does her last name change to yours - do you hyphenate both last names? and in which order?" also we did not get a true confirmation of Liam's last name until this chapter, so they could not ask us "how do you want to be addressed? what is your daughter's last name? fill-in-the-blank" (although with fill in the blank codes, players can be "funny" and put words that wouldn't make sense in the story)

And the names don't change her title. When you play as Liam's wife, sometimes people still address you "Queen Riley Brooks" instead of just "Queen Riley"; even Liam sometimes calls you "Queen Riley Brooks" instead of just "Queen Riley". And unless Liam was married before and had child/heir(s) before he married you, your title remains as Queen. Queen-consort usually comes into lineage/rules of succession that if the King dies, his heir becomes the next ruler instead of the Queen; unless he specifically names the queen-consort as his heir. King-consort is the title of the queen's husband if the queen is the one who actually has the power because king outranks queen so her husband cannot outrank her with the "king" title. Technically, Regina would have been the queen-consort, since she's the third queen but they rarely use "consort" with queen (it's more common as king-consort).