royal privileges
Monarch's special rights
Royal privileges are rights, exemptions, or benefits granted exclusively to royalty.
These range from the practical—tax exemptions, diplomatic immunity, dedicated security—to the ceremonial: precedence at state functions, formal modes of address, the right to certain symbols or regalia.
The phrase often carries a whiff of resentment: They live in palaces at taxpayer expense—nice royal privileges.
- immunity from prosecutionExemption from criminal proceedings
- coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
- inviolabilityProtected from transgression
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- majestyImpressive supreme dignity
treasury · legal protection · estate · monarchy · divine right · investiture · dynasty · regency · tax exemption · inheritance · lineage · land grants · non-liability · autocracy · knighthood · constitutional monarchy · crown jewels · annuity
- royal heritagebirthright, bloodline, crown jewels, heir apparent, hereditary titles
- Royal inheritancethrone, crown, succession, heir, heiress
royal privilegespopular sovereignty
Populace holds ultimate authority
democratic rights · egalitarianism · equal protection · universal suffrage · civil liberties
royal, royally, royalty, royalist, royalism, regalia, regality, reigning, regime