H.I.H.

American  

abbreviation

1. His Imperial Highness; Her Imperial Highness.

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HIH British  

abbreviation

1. His ( or Her) Imperial Highness

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Example Sentences

Such a deed would be the most intolerable of Japanese scandals, for distinguished Ambassador Matsudaira's daughter is now the wife of the Son of Heaven's eldest brother H.I.H.

From Time Magazine Archive

Upon sitting down at table I found myself between the Duc de Richelieu and Lord Clanwilliam, and one removed from the foreign lady, who turned out to be H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox

Next morning, about nine, the imperial steam yacht Fantasie came into port, with H.I.H. the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian on board, accompanied by the Archduchess.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

I have mentioned H.I.H. the Princess Frederica Amelia, who was affected by my success, and shall always think with gratitude of the protection with which that exalted lady honoured me.

From Barry Lyndon by Thackeray, William Makepeace

At this moment people are in a great state of excitement at the expected arrival of H.I.H.

From Letters from High Latitudes by Dufferin, Lord