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Royal Highness is a style used to address or refer to some members of royal families, usually princes or princesses. Kings and their female consorts, as well as queens regnant, are usually styled Majesty. When used as a direct form of address, spoken or written, it takes the form Your Royal Highness.
Your Royal Highness: Your Royal Highness, and thereafter as "Sir" (for males) or "Ma'am" (for females) Princess of Wales: HRH The Princess of Wales HRH The Duchess of Rothesay (in Scotland) Princess Royal: HRH The Princess Royal: Royal peer: HRH The Duke/etc. of London, e.g. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh: Royal peeress
His/Her Royal Highness (abbreviation HRH, oral address Your Royal Highness) – some monarchs, members of a royal family (other than monarchs, queens consort and queens dowager); grand dukes/duchesses who have reigned (but not those grand dukes who were cadets of the former Russian Imperial Family), consorts of grand dukes, grand ducal heirs ...
Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara, who was regent for Queen Isabella II from 1840 to 1843, and three times served as Prime Minister: in 1837, from 1840 to 1841, and from 1854 to 1856, was created Prince of Vergara with the exceptional (and not strictly non-royal) style of Royal Highness (Alteza Real) [citation needed] in 1872.
Only those classified within the social class of royalty and upper nobility have a style of "Highness" attached before their titles. Reigning bearers of forms of Highness included grand princes, grand dukes, reigning princes, reigning dukes, and princely counts, their families, and the agnatic (of the male bloodline) descendants of emperors and kings.
21 April 1926 – 11 December 1936: Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth of York [1] 11 December 1936 – 20 November 1947: Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth; 20 November 1947 – 6 February 1952: Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh [2] [3] 6 February 1952 – 8 September 2022: Her Majesty The Queen
Her royal highness Queen Elizabeth II takes the throne after receiving the crown, scepter and rod from the Archbishop of Canterbury at Westminster on June 2, 1953. The coronation ceremony was the ...
Wives of Kings are entitled to the style of Her Majesty (such as Queen Camilla). Husbands of queens regnant do not have the same right, as was the case with Queen Elizabeth II's consort Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who had the style Royal Highness. This is because a king outranks a queen, therefore, the consort would outrank the monarch ...