sword of state

The whole thing – save for the court shoes, which looked comfortable enough to be from the Portsmouth Marks & Spencer – was very Game of Thrones, an impression only added to by the fact that in front of her she carried the sword of state, which is 4ft long and weighs eight pounds.

6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian:

A sword used as part of the regalia, symbolizing the power of a monarch to use the might of the state against its enemies.


His Majesty's Opposition

The job of His Majesty's Opposition - especially as election time looms - is to provide well-worked-out alternatives to government plans, not to acquiesce in what could prove to be a disastrous policy for rail passengers.

2023 March 8, Christian Wolmar, “Labour passes up the chance to deliver a forceful rail policy”, in RAIL, number 978, page 35:

(UK politics) A more formal title for the Official Opposition (the largest opposition party) in the House of Parliament, used when there is a king on the throne.


Parliamentary green

(UK, monarchy) A green color used by the House of Commons.


shahzada

shahzadas (plural)
shāhzāda (alternative)
shahzadah (alternative)
shahzadeh (alternative)
shahzade (alternative)
shahzadé (alternative)
shazada (alternative)
shazadah (alternative)

From Classical Persian شاهزاده (šāhzāda), from شاه (šāh, “king”) + زاده (zāda, “offspring”).


shahbanu

shahbanus (plural)
shahbānū (alternative)
shahbanoo (alternative)

From Classical Persian شهبانو (šahbānū), from شاه (šāh, “king”) + بانو (bānū, “lady”).


heiress apparent

en-noun

heiress apparent (plural heiresses apparent)

heiresses apparent (plural)
heiress-apparent (alternative)

“Dear me!” said I, “what a sweeping charge of folly you are bringing against nearly the whole sex, which, after all, is only another version of what I said, namely, that women were great fools to marry. I have no doubt there are exceptions, and that the poor Princess Charlotte, for instance, found a husband the most docile, irreproachable, and obedient of created beings, and that all heiresses apparent to thrones will do the same;[…]”

1851, [Rosina] Bulwer Lytton, chapter IV, in Miriam Sedley; or, The Tares and the Wheat. A Tale of Real Life., volume III, London: W[illiam] Shoberl, […], pages 140–141:

Marry money, thought I to myself, who will he marry? then in my own mind I made a review of all the marriageable heiresses, and heiresses apparent, not only in Silveryville, but likewise, in a circuit several miles around it, and I could not find one among them all, who was not already engaged to be married to somebody else.

1861, G. Fort, “Our First Newspaper”, in We Four Villagers. A Tale of Domestic Life in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia, Pa.: J. S. McCalla, […], page 60:

Consider that one in seven of the queens and heiresses apparent of England between William I of Normandy and Victoria of Hanover died in childbed.

2022, J[ames] Bradford DeLong, “Notes”, in Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, published 2023, →ISBN, note 25:


Druk Gyalpo

/ˈdɹʊk ˈɡjɑːl.pəʊ/

Borrowed from Dzongkha and Tibetan འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ ('brug rgyal po, literally “Dragon King”).

bor+

འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ

The Druk Gyalpos preferred to deal directly with the district officers rather than through an intermediate-level official. By the time of the second Druk Gyalpo the Pönlop title had come to be used more as an honorary designation of rank for powerful members of the royal family but had no specific administrative functions or powers attached thereto.

1977 January 1, Leo E. Rose, The Politics of Bhutan, →ISBN, page 184:

The Druk Gyalpo—the king—is both head of state and head of government. In the process of coming to power, the first Druk Gyalpo, Ugyen Wangchuck, who reigned from 1907 to 1926, unified the nation, established friendly relations with Britain, and set his dynasty's political agenda.

2008 January 1, Ramesh Chandra Bisht, International Encyclopaedia of Himalayas (5 Vols.), →ISBN, page 143:

At exactly 8:31 a.m., former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, 52, placed the Raven Crown on the head of his son, 28-year-old Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, giving him the title of Druk Gyalpo, or Dragon King.

2008 November 6, Gavin Rabinowitz, “Bhutan celebrates coronation of new king”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 2019-09-20:


heiress presumptive

en-noun

heiress presumptive (plural heiresses presumptive)

heiresses presumptive (plural)
heiress-presumptive (alternative)

Still maintaining an outward appearance of friendship with Elizabeth, he quietly spread among his own people copies of his pedigree, wherein he represented himself as the true heir to the crown of England, by descent from his ancestresses Philippa and Katherine of Lancaster: ignoring the facts—that, though the heir general of Katherine, he was not so of her elder sister Philippa; and that if he had been, the law which would have made these two sisters heiresses presumptive had been altered while they were children.

[1876?], Emily Sarah Holt, “The Invincible Armada”, in Clare Avery: A Story of the Spanish Armada (English Life in the Olden Time), new edition, London: John F. Shaw and Co. […], →OCLC, page 81:

Catherine did not suffer for her inadvertant^([sic]) part in that treason, but was made a maid of honor and lived at Court as one of several heiresses presumptive during Mary Tudor’s reign.

1984, Kathy Lynn Emerson, “GREY, CATHERINE (1539-1568)”, in Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth Century England, Troy, N.Y.: The Whitston Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 97:

On 27 March, the House agreed to the recommendations of the Committee’s Fourth Report (HL 45) of that Session which proposed some revisions to the other categories of those allowed to sit on the steps of the Throne. Four categories of heirs to the peerage were allowed to sit on the steps: eldest sons of peers; eldest daughters or grand-daughters of peers if they were heiresses presumptive; grandsons of peers when heirs apparent and eldest sons of those having disclaimed a peerage.

2002, Susan Child, “[Parliament and the Constitution] House of Lords Reform”, in Politico’s Guide to Parliament, 2nd edition, London: Politico’s Publishing, →ISBN, page 50:


Her Majesty's Opposition

(UK politics) A more formal title for the Official Opposition (the largest opposition party) in the House of Parliament, used when there is a queen on the throne.


king consort

king consort (plural king consorts or kings consort)

king consorts (plural)
kings consort (plural)

Coordinate term: queen consort

Near-synonym: prince consort (if not recognized as a king)

It is also worth an aside here and noting that when Mary Queen of Scots married François, the French Dauphin in April 1558, he likewise became king consort of Scotland.

1998, Michael Ashley, British Monarchs: The Complete Genealogy, Gazetteer, and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Kings & Queens of Britain, page 639:

Make no mistake, should Rhaenyra ever sit the Iron Throne, it will be Daemon who rules us, a king consort as cruel and unforgiving as Maegor ever was.

2018, George R. R. Martin, Fire & Blood, unnumbered page:

Forged by King Consort Radagon to proudly symbolize the tenets of the Golden Order.

2022, FromSoftware (developer), Hidetaka Miyazaki, George R. R. Martin (writers), Elden Ring, →OCLC, scene: "Golden Order Greatsword" item description:


Raven Crown

With medieval tradition and Buddhist spirituality, a 28-year-old assumed the Raven Crown of Bhutan on Thursday, to guide the world's newest democracy as it emerges into the modern world.[…]The public greeting followed the coronation, an elaborate display of pageantry, mingled with ancient Buddhist rites that saw King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, 52, the much-loved monarch, formalize his abdication and place the Raven Crown on the head of his 28-year-old son.

2008 November 5, Harish Tyagi, “Bhutan celebrates coronation of new king”, in NBC, archived from the original on 2022-08-16:

The ‘Raven Crown” (a crown like a helmet with a raven head on top) is the national symbol of the monarchy of Bhutan. The Raven Crown was the external symbol of the role of the Mahakala.

2009 June 1, Reiki Crins, Meeting the “Other”: Living in the Present, Gender and Sustainability in Bhutan, Eburon Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 116:

A crown which is worn by the Druk Gyalpos of Bhutan, characteristically surmounted by the head of a raven.


reginacide

reginacide (countable and uncountable, plural reginacides)

reginacides (plural)
reginicide (alternative)

[A sketch of Edward Oxford’s attempted assassination of Queen Victoria.]

1840, The Reginacide, or, An Attack on the Constitution, London: H. Hilliard, […]:

It is related that once upon a time in a small room of a large house three little girls were seated. They were pretty, they were poor, and they were princesses. Before them stood a fat man with a white beard. […] To the first he said: You will be a duchess and be burned to death. To the second: You will be a queen and fly for your life. To the third: You will be an empress and go mad on your throne. […] In any event, though the astrologer may have foreseen regalias, he could not foretell the reginacide.

1898 September 24, Edgar Saltus, “The Empress of Austria”, in Robert J[oseph] Collier, editor, Collier’s Weekly: An Illustrated Journal of Art, Literature and Current Events, volume XXI, number 25, New York, N.Y.: Peter Fenelon Collier, page 2, column 1:

In view of the permission of reginacide in Pius V’s excommunication of Elizabeth I (Regnans in excelsis, 1570), most English Protestants (and Wesley with them) were convinced that Roman Catholics were disloyal citizens, ex professo.

1984, Albert C[ook] Outler, “Wesley and His Sources”, in The Works of John Wesley, bicentennial edition, volume 1 (Sermons, I, 1–33), Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, →ISBN, Introduction, footnote 33, page 77:

When I saw the size of the bruise under her whiteface, I had to be restrained from storming Blachernae and committing reginacide.

2002, Alan Gordon, chapter 6, in A Death in the Venetian Quarter: A Medieval Mystery, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Minotaur, →ISBN, page 80:

(countable and uncountable) The killing of a queen (female monarch or wife of a king).


flower crown

(clothing, monarchy) A crown made of brightly colored flowers.


yabghu

yabghus (plural)
yabgu (alternative)
jabgu (alternative)
djabgu (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Old Turkic 𐰖𐰉𐰍𐰆 (yabɣu).

lbor

(historical) A ruler of a medieval Turkic state, nominally subject to a khagan.


green rod

(UK, monarchy) A ceremonial rod associated with the Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod.