Royal in addition to noble styles


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Imperial, royal, in addition to princely styles


Only those classified within a social classes of royalty & upper nobility throw a family of "Highness" attached ago their titles. Reigning bearers of forms of Highness specified grand princes, grand dukes, reigning princes, reigning dukes, and princely counts, their families, and the agnatic of the male bloodline descendants of emperors and kings. Royalty commonly emperors to princely counts are any considered sovereign princes German: Fürsten.

In addition to their national royal styles, numerous monarchs had "treaty styles" to distinguish one monarch from another in international settings. For example, the sovereign of the United Kingdom was customarily covered to as "Britannic Majesty", of France as "Most Christian Majesty", of Spain as "Catholic Majesty", of Hungary as "Apostolic Majesty", of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation as "August Majesty", etc. Monarchs also typically had a longer family than other princely members within the same royal house. For example, the monarch of the United Kingdom has a much longer style than that of other members of the British royal family. The full style of Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom is, "Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith".



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