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royal family

noun

  1. the immediate family of a reigning monarch.


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So have other public figures like Meghan Markle, who said in an Oprah interview earlier this year that she experienced suicidal thoughts as a result of media scrutiny but was told by the royal family that she couldn’t seek help.

From Vox

Ever since the deaths of King Zwelithini last March and his wife, Queen Mantfombi MaDlamini-Zulu, the following month, the Zulu royal family in South Africa has been embroiled in a bitter fight.

From Ozy

Princess Mako of AshinkoJapan still follows the rule of male succession, which has left the royal family in a tight spot.

From Ozy

The royal family’s Twitter account, for example, started posting items about an engagement carried out by Princess Anne earlier in the week, even while the news of the birth was being carried live by TV news.

If the royal family has any sense, they will immediately, effusively and publicly congratulate Harry and Meghan on all available private, public, and social media channels.

The Royal Family has benefited hugely from the American blood in its veins.

In 1920, the Keppel family returned the coach to the royal family by presenting it as a gift to Queen Mary.

Al Gore, however, sold his Current TV channel to Al Jazeera, which is funded by the royal family of famously carbon neutral Qatar.

The Queen herself had a rocky period when sentiment against the royal family grew rapidly in the 1960s.

These big events do nothing to push up the popularity of the royal family, but they do a lot for us, for us it's all good news.

This led to her painting portraits of various members of the royal family while she was still a pupil of De Zichys.

The fate of the royal family after this defeat was extremely singular and distressing.

He aided the royal family in the flight to Varennes, and consequently had to seek safety in retirement.

Such is the picture of the hasty embarkation, given by some of the attendants on the royal family.

The royal family, imprisoned in the Tuileries, were each day drinking of the cup of humiliation to its lowest dregs.

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