Isn't there a difference between the two? I've regularly heard of queens consort as SOVEREIGNS -- just not reigning MONARCHS. Everybody knows that Sonja of Norway sits on a throne which is not hers by right or inheritance -- as her granddaughter Ingrid will one day. But she and her husband are regularly referred to in writing as "the sovereigns".
Plus, in the past, the wives of kings (as long as the marriages were dynastic, not morganatic) were crowned alongside their husbands.
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So even though a consort may not qualify as a sovereign in her own right…
A consort absolutely does not qualify as a sovereign; only the monarch is sovereign and a consort is not a monarch.
