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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bird/whale/royal etc watcher
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Fifteen thousand bird watchers visit annually.
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Industry-watchers hailed the takeover as a triumph.
presidential/royal/ministerial etc duties (= duties that go with being a president, member of a royal family, a minister etc )
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The prince is now old enough to carry out royal duties.
royal blue
Royal Commission
royal flush
Royal Highness
Royal Regiment of Scotland, the
the Royal family (= the king or queen and their family )
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The Royal Family have large estates in Scotland.
the royal prerogative (= the rights of kings and queens )
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the royal prerogative
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assent
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The new law will become effective three months from when it receives royal assent .
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Two days later the Education Act of 1944 received the royal assent .
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On 16 January 1707 the Treaty of Union received its royal assent .
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The Town Development Act received the royal assent in August 1952.
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The royal assent has not been refused since 1708.
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Three days after my sixteenth birthday, in August 1944, Butler's Education Act received the royal assent .
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The bill is expected to received royal assent in July, the regulations to come into force early 1994.
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Earlier this month the Badgers Bill completed its passage through both Houses of Parliament, and by now should have royal assent .
authority
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The crisis in the royal authority was underlined by the activities of Charles of Navarre in Normandy.
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Williams answered that he cared for no royal authority , since it all rested on a solemn public lie.
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At the time he probably seemed instead a manifestation of resurgent royal authority .
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Richard Hansard was then one of a group of northerners sent to restore royal authority in Hampshire.
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There was then apparently an offer of pardon to others who submitted willingly to the royal authority without delay.
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A rapid reassertion of royal authority was essential, and this provided Gloucester with an opening.
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There was nothing inherently subversive of royal authority here.
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Cocherel witnessed an important blow struck for royal authority by an army under a commander of undoubted skill and experience.
castle
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A must is probably the most spectacular and romantic royal castle in the world - Neuschwanstein.
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No group of historic buildings symbolises a nation's history more than this old royal castle .
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From 1321 to 1325 he was also in charge of works at the royal castle there.
charter
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Surgery grew as a separate profession under its own royal charter .
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The colony was doomed to be swallowed by Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which had royal charters as it did not.
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In 1670 he was one of the original adventurers listed in the royal charter of the Hudson's Bay Company.
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These Puritans, who did have a royal charter , wanted unity even more than did the Pilgrims.
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In 1638 he became an alderman of Shrewsbury under its new royal charter .
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A market overt is a market, constituted under statute, by royal charter or by long standing custom.
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Bradstreet again served as governor until May of 1692 when the governor appointed under the new royal charter arrived.
clerk
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He became a royal clerk , probably by July 1359, certainly by 1361.
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The acquisition of Templar estates and of alien priories likewise enlarged the openings for royal clerks .
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Many farms were let out to royal clerks and lay servants - another aspect of crown patronage.
commission
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In 1996 a royal commission concluded that the problem went beyond attempts to snuff out native culture.
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Everyone agrees that it is the report, and that there is no point in having a royal commission after Woolf.
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However, he opposed a royal commission on the legalisation of drugs, the formal policy of the Liberal Democrats.
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In 1604 he received a lucrative royal commission to print the Ten Commandments for use in churches throughout the country.
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A capacity for burying problems made royal commissions and the like instantly attractive to politicians besieged by one knotty issue or another.
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To begin with, Margaret Thatcher dispensed with royal commissions .
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Once established, a royal commission was out of political control.
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Never given office by the Liberals, he served as a back-bencher on several royal commissions and committees.
couple
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The royal couple are rarely seen together outside official engagements.
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Isabelia was satisfied, and the royal couple were wed in October.
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It was the scene of a failed assassination attempt on the royal couple at a charity concert nine years ago.
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Walking several feet apart and avoiding even making eye contact, the royal couple arrive at Seoul's national cemetery.
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The incident was one of many domestic crises which crowded in upon the royal couple in those tumultuous early days.
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At Great Ormond Street hospital doctors tell the royal couple that William has a depressed fracture which needs an immediate operation.
court
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Until well into the sixteenth century the royal court and its functionaries were peripatetic.
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That he might elevate her into the imaginary ranks of some royal court of whiteness.
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Numerous conflicts within the kingdom were thus centred upon the royal court .
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There were court musicians whose exact relation to the family or to any royal court was predictably fuzzy.
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This was the moment when the Deiran royal court was destroyed.
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Most of their business was transacted in the royal court , whose physical setting dictated the rituals of supplication and patronage.
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Indeed it is more than likely that Desiderius was encouraged in his actions by the royal court .
estate
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They toured castles in the royal estates of Charlottenburg and Potsdam.
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It was a royal estate in Saxon times, but how far back into that age?
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The former royal estate was bought by the Knightley family in 1415 and the original hall was built in 1540.
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This was clearly true of peasants on royal estates , which is where many smaller mints were located.
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Cash-rents were exacted on royal estates .
family
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The notion that the royal family should be kept on because it is a tourist attraction has always been a ludicrous one.
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But the crown prince is 71 himself, and, having only half-brothers within the royal family , may have difficulty ruling.
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The formal powers of the royal family have diminished as the yardage about them in the newspapers has grown.
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Teiresias, the prophet who had brought so many distressful prophecies to the royal family , came to bring still another.
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Syngman Rhee was born in 1875 into a branch of the royal family but one lacking in wealth.
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But much of it also went into the unbridled and anachronistic opulence of the royal family and the main tribal chiefs.
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It is governed by an Amir, chosen by and from the members of the royal family .
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Even though her family had rubbed shoulders with the royal family for years, Sarah was understandably nervous.
house
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But the royal house of Stewart itself had not been threatened; in both cases, the king's son had succeeded.
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Admittedly, they were of the royal house of Hapsburg but they were no less dead for that.
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So, too, did members of various noble and royal houses .
household
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On a number of occasions I found members of the royal household resting.
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The significance of the Tudor reforms in the royal Household is not very easily assessed.
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Their loss was not reported to police or the royal household - and work carried on as if nothing had happened.
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The anti-Roman faction in the royal household seized power and totally upset the careful arrangements made and fostered by Rome.
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But a senior member of the royal household told the Mirror that any inaccuracies in the diagrams were tiny.
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Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household .
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Some of these, like the reforms in the royal Household , were largely a matter of tidying up existing arrangements.
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He could afford this, for the royal household had brazenly looked after its own.
icing
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However, if a hard smooth surface is required royal icing is very effective.
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Place the remaining royal icing in the piping bag and fit with a small star nozzle.
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When dry, carefully peel the brushes off the paper and secure on to the lid with a little spare royal icing .
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Position the six roses between the candles and stick them down with dabs of royal icing .
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Colour a little more royal icing pink, keep tightly wrapped, and colour the remaining royal icing green.
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Stick small poinsettias inside the larger ones with royal icing , then arrange flowers and leaves on the cake, as shown.
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Attach the tongue in the mouth using a little royal icing to secure.
marriage
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In a series of briefings yesterday, sources agreed the royal marriage was less than perfect.
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But this is the tail end of a really big set of stories about royal marriages .
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They described the King's surprise and frustration, for usually the Pope made little difficulty over the annulment of royal marriages .
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It all comes dangerously close to royal marriages between first cousins.
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Charles and Diana sent back the bland and unadventurous vegetarian dish, a taste of the lacklustre state of the royal marriage .
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The royal marriage worked reasonably well.
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Can Anne and Tim beat royal marriage curse?
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She spent her mature and declining years arranging royal marriages for her children.
official
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Geoffrey was fortunate in having the support of the king in his arguments with royal officials in Ireland.
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Indeed, one chronicler suggests that a rising against the oppressive behaviour of royal officials might easily have occurred.
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In the process of dissolution, the royal officials had stripped the church, as all others, of its valuable ornaments.
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All this could be complicated by the involvement of royal officials who might choose to aid one or other party.
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Buckingham Palace has denied a report that senior royal officials said the marriage had run into difficulties.
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There is no suggestion that Gloucester enjoyed any influence within the lordships, where the royal officials remained unchanged.
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But royal officials poo-poo the claims.
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Similarly, royal officials profited from their duties, and there was inevitably corruption.
palace
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It's famous for royal palaces , wonderful art galleries, stunning architecture and even its seaside.
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D., a curiously grim old Buddhist saint and sage known as Bodhidharma, who immediately proceeded to the royal palace .
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Others had been imprisoned following an attack on the royal palace at Skhirat, near Rabat, in 1971.
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At Kaiserslauten he built a royal palace of red stone on a lavish scale.
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As paymaster he was responsible for the organization of the finance required in the restoration of the neglected royal palaces .
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Author A N Wilson has detailed the benefits that would be gained by handing over the royal palaces to a republican government.
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Panic spread through the city, followed by rebellion in the royal palace .
party
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The boys thanked her politely and returned to the rest of the royal party grinning and clutching their gifts.
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We tracked Sam down to Calcutta where he was travelling with the royal party .
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Benn collected the 12d fares from the royal party , who paid with specially-minted coins.
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The government is reportedly unwilling to enforce conservation laws in the case of influential royal parties from its Gulf allies.
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As the royal party was brought round backstage, my thirst got the better of me.
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The last two carriages of the 10.20am London-to-Oxford train had been reserved for the royal party .
patronage
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A golf tournament with royal patronage was too good an opportunity for a publicity-minded company to miss.
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The Woodvilles' assimilation into the political community was further eased by a less aggressive manipulation of royal patronage on their behalf.
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For the church this surge in royal patronage had damaging effects, pastoral and political.
power
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Here was a family determined if at all possible to keep royal power in its own hands.
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He resigned his royal power and organized a commonwealth, building a council hall where the citizens should gather and vote.
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But did it necessarily grow at the expense of royal power ?
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There is no certain evidence that Hlothhere shared royal power as king of Kent with his nephew.
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The next four decades saw a slow but fairly steady erosion of royal power .
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The dark figure on the raised white terrace; legate of the sun facing the sun; the most ancient royal power .
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Yet the Josephite victory presaged no broader attempt to circumscribe royal power .
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The ideology of royal power was already widely diffused in Charles's kingdom after centuries of Merovingian rule.
residence
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In 1698, a fire destroyed much of the palace and the royal residence shifted to St James's.
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The guest house for the abbey became the nucleus of a royal residence .
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And Richmond is only one of the royal residences !
servant
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Another confidential royal servant , however, fared less well.
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Because of Gloucester's influence in the duchy, royal servants naturally looked to him for lordship.
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The duke, in other words, contributed to the royal connection as well as providing a focus for existing royal servants .
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It is clear that neither of them could call on the personal loyalty of the royal servants in the duchy.
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Dudley, a trusted royal servant , was prepared to see an expansion of ducal influence in the county.
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By 1483 some at least of the royal servants were sufficiently committed to Gloucester to play an active role in his coup.
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The evidence seems to point to a legal style which a number of royal servants were competent to use.
watcher
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Politicians, pundits and royal watchers have all made public comment on the private life of Charles and Diana.
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Experienced royal watchers claimed to note a distinctly frosty air between the couple.
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The prince and princess's hectic schedule of engagements will be closely observed by royal watchers .
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But the sombre ceremony threw royal watchers a dilemma.
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With enormous skill she manipulated friends and assisted long-time royal watcher Andrew Morton to secure her ticket to freedom.
yacht
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Ironically, for two weeks in 1981, the royal yacht was the luxurious honeymoon base for Charles and Diana.
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In 1933 Princess Victoria joined the royal Yacht from this quay.
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It had a single curved platform and a handsome waiting-room, and provided access from the railway to the royal yacht .
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On board the royal yacht , with its 21officers and 256 men, they were never left alone.
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The Royals seem to use the royal yacht purely for privileged leisure cruising - at our vast expense.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
your/his/her Royal Highness
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the royal house of Austria
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They've made a royal mess of things.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A small bomb was said to have exploded near the royal party's hotel, causing no injuries.
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But otherwise the informal processes of the Chamber continued to dominate royal finance until the 1530s.
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The royal crypt was laid out by the architect Kamil RoÜkot in 1928-35.
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The ceremony at Notre-Dame was one of the great royal spectacles of the sixteenth century.
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The development of the retinue would have been impossible without royal backing and reflected, rather than negated, the king's authority.
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Then he demanded to see the royal store-rooms and the lettuce-garden.
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Turn right towards the royal palace, then right again to reach Place Royale.
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Walking several feet apart and avoiding even making eye contact, the royal couple arrive at Seoul's national cemetery.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is a pity that other royals can not behave like her, particularly during the personal crises in their lives.
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She is also expected to join other royals at the church service on Christmas Day.
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The royals have had their own train for 150 years.
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The royals should be told to do likewise.