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royal family

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noun

  • royal families
    plural
  1. the immediate family of a reigning monarch.


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Another group member is aristocrat David Lascelles, the Earl of Harewood, whose family has close links to the royal family.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Many people have made their minds up about Meghan and the saga with her father is only part of the tangled story of the duchess and the rest of the royal family.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Prince Harry is opening up about his and wife Meghan Markle’s unexpected decision earlier this year to move back to the United Kingdom years after their dramatic fallout with the British royal family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The royal family member told Alfozan that an artificial-intelligence initiative was being launched in Saudi Arabia and he wanted Alfozan to join it, the filing alleges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

In both, royal family trees formed an intricate network across national boundaries, but in Mixteca the queen's lands stayed in her line—the king's heir wasn’t necessarily the queen’s heir.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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