royal household
Palace staff collectively
The royal household comprises the staff, officials, and organizational apparatus supporting a monarch and their family.
It includes private secretaries, ladies-in-waiting, equerries, and domestic servants who manage daily affairs, correspondence, and public engagements.
The royal household announced the king's schedule for the state visit.
The term may also refer to the monarch's immediate family members collectively.
- equerryRoyal household's horse attendant
- lady-in-waitingFemale royal court attendant
- palaceMonarch's official residence
- Windsor CastleBritish royal stronghold
- throne roomSovereign's formal audience hall
monarchy · majordomo · steward · chamberlain · master of ceremonies · throne · court official · livery · court · ceremonial duties · state banquet · nobility · servant · sovereign · heir · regent · herald · valet
- monarchyking, queen, prince, princess, crown
- royaltyking, queen, prince, princess, kings
- royal ceremoniescrowning, state banquet, crown jewels, scepter, orb and scepter
- Bourbon FranceVersailles, the Sun King, Louis XV, Colbert, Edict of Nantes
- court etiquettecurtsy, genuflection, precedence, deference, hand kissing
- Dutch RoyaltyPrince of Orange, Willem-Alexander, Beatrix, Wilhelmina, Juliana
royal householdrepublican government
Rule through elected representatives
elected officials · democratic institutions · representative democracy · republic · representative government
royal householdcommoners
Ordinary citizens, untitled
common folk · plebeians · the masses · serfs · the proletariat
royal, household, royalty, coronation, royally, royalist, royalism, royalists