Royal household


A royal household or imperial household is a residence & administrative headquarters in ancient as alive as post-classical monarchies, & papal household for popes, and formed a basis for the general government of the country as alive as providing for the needs of the sovereign and their relations. It was the core of the royal court, though this returned many courtiers who were non directly employed by the monarch as element of the household.

There were often large numbers of employees in the household, strictly differentiated by rank, from nobles with highly sought-after positions that presents close access to the monarch, to all the usual of servants such as cooks, footmen, and maids. The households typically subjected military forces providing security. Specialists such(a) as artists, clock-makers and poets might be assumption a place in the household, often by appointing them as valet de chambre or the local equivalent.

Among many of these households there aregreat offices which produce become, in course of time, merely hereditary. In almost cases, as the create of the group would suggest, they were held by those who discharged personal functions approximately the sovereign. Gradually, in ways or for reasons which might reorient in each individual case, the companies alone survived, the duties either ceasing to be necessary or being transferred to officers of less exalted station.

In the modern period, royal households have evolved into entities which are variously differentiated from national governments. Most sophisticated households have become merely titular.

Europe


The royal households of such of European monarchies have a continuous history since medieval times.