ROYAL OAK

city, Oakland county, southeastern Michigan, U.S., a residential northern suburb of Detroit. First settled in 1819, it may have been named for an oak in Scotland under which, according to legend, Charles Edward the Young Pretender hid from his pursuers in 1745. The Detroit Zoological Park is there. The controversial radio priest of the 1930s, Charles E. Coughlin, was pastor of the city's Shrine of the Little Flower. Inc. village, 1891; city, 1921. Pop. (1990) 65,410.