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By manner in which the title is usually achieved. Most title-holders are Appointed to their rank by someone higher in the system or Elected by people equal in the system. Historically, many titles were achieved through Hereditary birthright. A few historical titles have been randomly Chosen By Lot or Purchased outright.
These titles lapsed when Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne. While the British Empire only gave the monarch one significant new title, that of Emperor of India , its transformation into the Commonwealth of Nations and decolonisation created many new independent states, each with a separate monarchy.
Lord, a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are entitled to courtesy titles. The collective "Lords" can refer to a group or body of peers, the feminine is Lady. Lalla, is an Amazigh title of respect. The title is a prefix to her given name or personal name, and is used by females usually of noble or royal background.
P. Padshah Begum; Page (servant) Panglima; Paramount chief; Pechin; Pope (title) Porphyrogennetos; Portman (burgess) Post-nominal letters; Lists of post-nominal letters
In 2018, a campaign named GoTitleFree [1] was launched to encourage businesses to stop requesting, storing and using marital status titles in their registration forms, and when speaking with customers, launched on the grounds that titles often lead to assumptions about a woman's age or availability for marriage, and exclude non-binary people ...
List of historical films set in Near Eastern and Western civilization List of historical films set in Asia This article includes a film-related list of lists .
This is a glossary of historical Romanian ranks and titles used in the principalities of Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania, and later in Romania. Many of these titles are of Slavic etymology, with some of Greek , Latin , and Turkish etymology; several are original (such as armaș , paharnic , jitnicer and vistiernic ).
Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. [1] Especially in earlier medieval periods the term often implied not only a certain status, but also that the count had specific responsibilities or offices.