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.
The crowning of a consort does not make one a sovereign or a monarch. A monarch is sovereign; if you’ve regularly heard that consorts are “sovereigns” then you’ve been misinformed and the sources you are referring to are misusing the term.
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