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Royal Highness
Royal Highness n. an honorific title or form of address given to a person of royal rank.The title His (or Her) Royal Highness (abbreviated HRH) is currently officially given to the consort and children of the reigning British monarch, the sons of the sons of this monarch, and the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, but is often used in referring to other members of the royal family. See also highness n. 2b.
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His (also Her) Majestya1387
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1555 Anno Primo & Secundo Philippi & Mariae Actes made Parl., Westm., 12 November: Acte Punishm. of Heresies f. 10 The Prelates and Cleargye aforesayd..praying..yt his roial highnes would vouchesafe in the sayd parliamente, to prouide a conuenyente remedy [etc.].
1606 R. Parsons Answere 5th Pt. Rep. Cooke v. 135 Wherefore doe your royall highnes concurre also to this our ordination, to the end that those things..may come to their effect.
1732 J. Anderson Royal Genealogies Ded. sig. A3 The having recourse to these Tables will make the reading of any History more entertaining and instructive; and I only presume to offer them to Your Royal Highness as Repertories for recollecting and ranging the Facts [etc.].
1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. 19 Her royal highness merely awaited an opportunity of getting rid of him.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Rose & Ring vii The first lord-in-waiting, entered and said, ‘Royal Highnesses! Their Majesties expect you in the Pink Throne-room’.
1955 Times 8 July 5/1 Her Royal Highness drove across the airfield to see a Bristol Britannia airliner undergoing metal fatigue tests in a water tank.
2012 Times (Nexis) 10 May 47 Her Majesty and His Royal Highness..were received at the Sovereign's Entrance by the Earl Marshal and the Lord Great Chamberlain.
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Royal Highness
Royal Highness v. now rare transitive to address (a person) by the title ‘(your) Royal Highness’.
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1816 J. Forsyth Remarks Excurs. Italy (ed. 2) 456 Prince Augustus of England, when living near Frascati, was often at the Rocca, where they Royal Highnessed each other incessantly.
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son III. xxxi. 209 De Ruyter bantered me about this Princess of Yug, and Royal Highnessed me unceasingly.
1907 Duke of Argyll Passages from Past II. 360 He took young Seckendorff for the Prince of Wurtemberg, and went on ‘Royal Highnessing’ him.
2007 T. O'Connell Dumping Princes ix. 45 There were a number of royals at my school... But none of them got royal highness-ed like Indie.
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