highness
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In the letter Charles makes clear that the couple's position is "akin to private citizens" and that they should not be addressed as his and her royal highness.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
“That was in large part engineered by his highness MBS in Saudi Arabia” and other Saudi officials, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
“I am available anytime to see you and His royal highness M.B.Z.,”
From New York Times ● May 22, 2022
He also can no longer use the title "his royal highness" in official settings.
From Fox News ● Feb. 16, 2022
‘All of those man-eating giants is enormous and very fierce! They is all at least two times my wideness and double my royal highness!’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
"Having spent the last two Christmases at Sandringham, their royal highnesses will spend the holidays this year, as a new family, with the duchess' mother, Doria Ragland."
From Fox News ● Nov. 15, 2019
Liechtenstein boasts 72 princes and princesses, which is eleven more highnesses than it has square miles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their royal highnesses will be able to swim in a lagoon-shaped pool, or catch a film in the 45-seat basement cinema.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last September, after Parliament failed to approve a bill that would amend the constitution and reduce their highnesses to just plain misters, she ordered the President of India, V.V.
From Time Magazine Archive
The American Bonapartes were not ranked as royal highnesses for fear, on the part of Napoleon III. and Prince Napoleon, 'Plon-plon,' of raising unpleasant questions as to the succession.
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Maurice Francis Egan
