Your Imperial Majesty
Royalty's formal title
Your Imperial Majesty is a formal address for an emperor or empress, used when speaking directly to them.
It belongs to the elaborate system of royal honorifics, more elevated than Your Majesty (for kings and queens) by virtue of imperial rank.
The phrase appears in historical contexts and period dramas: Your Imperial Majesty, the ambassador awaits.
In contemporary usage, it's sometimes deployed sarcastically toward someone acting imperious.
- formal addressRespectful way of speaking
- ceremonialRelating to formal rites
- imperatorHolder of supreme authority
- suzerainLord over vassals
- coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
sovereign · diadem · czarina · regalia · divine right · King · throne · Heraldry · Tsar · crown · monarchy · royalty · Dynasty · court etiquette · palace intrigue · Mikado · Roman Empire · Byzantine Empire
Your Imperial MajestyYour Honor
Judicial title of respect
Your Worship · Your Excellency · Your Highness · Your Royal Highness · Your Grace
yours, yourself, yourselves, imperial, imperially, imperialism, imperialist, imperialistic, empires