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  2. Forms of address in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Your Majesty: Your Majesty, and thereafter as "Sir" (or the archaic "Sire") Queen: HM The Queen: Your Majesty, and thereafter as "Ma'am" (to rhyme with "jam") [4] [5] Prince of Wales: HRH The Prince of Wales HRH The Duke of Rothesay (in Scotland) Your Royal Highness: Your Royal Highness, and thereafter as "Sir" (for males) or "Ma'am" (for ...

  3. Majesty - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. English honorifics - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Royal Highness - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, the wives of the king of the Zulu peoples, although all entitled to the title of queen, do not share their husband's style of Majesty but instead are each addressed as Royal Highness, with the possible exception of the great wife. [citation needed] Another example, The Zosimli Naa is a female chieftaincy title in Ghana.

  6. Style (form of address) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Highness - Wikipedia

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    Although Jalalat Mahab is derived from the Arabic term Jalalat literally meaning His Majesty, it is regarded as equal to His Highness internationally. A legal ground for it is a strengthened ius cogens within the Afghan royal family with gateways in the first written constitution of Afghanistan issued by Abdur Rahman Khan in year 1890 and ...

  8. Ecclesiastical titles and styles - Wikipedia

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    Bishop: "the Right Reverend" (Rt. Rev.); formally addressed as My Lord rather than Your Excellency. This style is an ancient one, and has been used in the western church for more than a thousand years; it corresponds to, but does not derive from, the Italian Monsignore and the French Monseigneur .

  9. Excellency - Wikipedia

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    Although Jalalat Mahab is derived from the Arabic term Jalalat literally meaning His Majesty, it is regarded as equal to His Excellency or His Royal Highness internationally. The descendants of King Nadir Shah held the title Alaa Hazrat in which context Hazrat is Turkish and means Majesty or Highness and thus literally translated means Higher ...