subroyalty

Updated: May 12, 2025

This usage received the approval of a certain few who had had the privilege of addressing royalty or subroyalty and who remembered that, after they had used the expression "Your Royal Highness" a few times, they were entitled to an occasional lapse into the simpler "you." At the office, where he was by no means a royal highness, he was always Paston, and Paston merely.

Henry Blake Fuller - With the Procession