This is largely correct regarding titles and gender in the British royal family: men who marry into the monarchy receive titles like Prince (e.g., Prince Philip) but cannot become King, whereas women who marry a reigning or future King take the title of Queen Consort.
A title of "King" implies a sovereign who reigns by right of birth or constitutional succession. Men who marry female monarchs (like Queen Victoria or Queen Elizabeth II) are traditionally styled as Prince Consort or Prince rather than King to denote they do not share the sovereign political power.
A woman marrying a King automatically assumes the honorary and titular rank of Queen (Queen Consort), sharing the social status and style of her husband without holding the constitutional powers of a "Queen Regnant" (a female monarch who rules in her own right, such as Elizabeth II).
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