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Majesty (abbreviated HM for His Majesty or Her Majesty, oral address Your Majesty; from the Latin maiestas, meaning ' greatness ') is used as a manner of address by many monarchs, usually kings or queens. Where used, the style outranks the style of (Imperial/Royal) Highness, but is inferior to the style of Imperial Majesty.
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. When used as a third-person reference, it is gender-specific (His Royal Highness or Her Royal Highness, both abbreviated HRH) and in plural, Their Royal ...
Female Lord Justice of Appeal: The Rt Hon Lady Justice (Mary) Smith, DBE: Lady Justice: Lady Justice: My Lady Retired female Lord Justice of Appeal: The Rt Hon Dame Mary Smith, DBE: Judge or Dame Mary: Dame Mary: My Lady Male High Court judge: The Hon. Mr Justice (John) Smith: Judge: Judge: My Lord Retired male High Court judge: Sir John Smith ...
In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.
Sire (oral address first Your Majesty and then Sire; for a queen first Your Majesty and then Ma'am) – Reigning kings in the United Kingdom and in Belgium. It has also been used in France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Sweden and Spain. His/Her Imperial Majesty (abbreviation HIM, oral address Your Imperial Majesty) – Emperors and empresses ...
The order of precedence for female members of the royal family is: [1] The sovereign Charles III; Whether male or female. Queen Consort . Queen Camilla; Current consort. Queens Dowager. N/A; Ordered most recent consort first. The Princess of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall. Catherine, Princess of Wales; i.e. the wife of the sovereign's eldest son.
These Hollywood stars have opened up about not fitting into a strictly "male" or "female" category. Demi Lovato, Sam Smith, Janelle Monáe, and Emma D'Arcy all identify as nonbinary.
The most common honorifics in modern English are usually placed immediately before a person's name. Honorifics used (both as style and as form of address) include, in the case of a man, "Mr." (irrespective of marital status), and, in the case of a woman, previously either of two depending on marital status: "Miss" if unmarried and "Mrs." if married, widowed, or divorced; more recently, a third ...