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means The status, power, or members of a king's or queen's family — or, in a separate sense, the cut of earnings paid to an author, inventor, or landowner for the use of their work or property.
from From the Old French 'roialte,' built on 'roial' (royal), which descends from Latin 'regalis,' "kingly" — itself from 'rex,' "king," a word reaching back to the same ancient root as 'regal,' 'regent,' and 'rule.' The payment sense came later and more mundanely: by extension, a 'royalty' was originally a right granted by the crown (like the right to mine or print), so the money owed for exercising that right inherited the regal name. The king's prerogative, slowly turned into a line item.
- blood feud
- Most European royals descend from Queen Victoria.
- job security
- Japan's imperial line claims 2,600 unbroken years.
- the hapsburg jaw
- Centuries of cousin marriage left a famously deformed chin.
- royalty payments
- The music term comes from crown-granted mining rights.
british royal family — king charles iii and descendants of queen victoria, ruling since 1066
house of saud — saudi arabian royal family with 15,000+ members, controlling the kingdom since 1932
house of windsor — british and commonwealth reigning dynasty since 1917, current line from george v