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Royal Courts of Justice (Banksy mural)
Royal Courts of Justice (Banksy mural), also titled 'Royal Courts of Justice, London', a 2025 stenciled Banksy mural of a judge beating a protester, painted on the Queen's Building in London and scrubbed off at a cost of £85,300.
Royal Crescent
The Royal Crescent is a Grade I listed row of 30 terraced houses in Bath, England, built between 1767 and 1775 to designs by John Wood the Younger.
Royal cypher
A royal cypher, or imperial cypher, is the monogram of a ruling monarch, combining initials, R for rex or regina, and a regnal number, topped by a crown.
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab), a Danish learned society founded 13 November 1742 in Copenhagen, with over 500 members in humanities and natural sciences classes, tied to the Carlsberg Foundation, currently led by president Susanne Ditlevsen.
Royal Danish Air Force
Royal Danish Air Force (Flyvevåbnet), Denmark's air force with about 3,000 personnel at Karup. Replaced F-16s with 27+16 F-35As; flies NATO Baltic and Iceland air policing, Arctic operations with NORAD.
Royal Danish Army
Royal Danish Army (Hæren), the land branch of Denmark's armed forces, founded 1614; two brigades and ten regiments under Army Command at Karup, rebuilding via the 2024-2033 agreement with 11-month gender-equal conscription.
Royal Danish Navy
Royal Danish Navy (Søværnet), founded 10 August 1510 under King Hans; Danish naval branch with Navy Command at Karup, squadrons at Frederikshavn and Korsør, Iver Huitfeldt and Thetis-class frigates, no submarines, and a 2025 Navy Plan expansion.
Royal Danish Theatre
Royal Danish Theatre (Det Kongelige Teater), Denmark's national stage founded in 1748 under Frederik V at Kongens Nytorv, houses drama, opera, ballet, and the Royal Danish Orchestra across three Copenhagen buildings.
Royal Dano
Royal Dano (Royal Edward Dano Sr., 1922–1994), American character actor of some 300 film and TV roles, known for westerns, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Right Stuff, and voicing Disney's animatronic Abraham Lincoln.
Royal Design
Royal Design Group AB is a Swedish premium design and furniture e-commerce retailer, founded in Kalmar in 1999 and acquired by the Danish foundation Egmont in December 2020.
Royal Domain of Drottningholm
Royal Domain of Drottningholm (Drottningholms slottsområde), UNESCO World Heritage Site on Lovön island in Lake Mälar near Stockholm, inscribed 1991; Baroque palace, 1766 theatre with original machinery, Chinese Pavilion, gardens; Swedish royal family's residence since 1981.
Royal Doulton
Royal Doulton: English ceramics brand founded 1815 in Lambeth, London, by John Doulton, Martha Jones, and John Watts; Royal Warrant 1901; known for stoneware pipes, HN figurines, and fine china; Fiskars Group since 2015.
Royal Dramatic Theatre
The Royal Dramatic Theatre (Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, Dramaten) is Sweden's national stage for spoken theatre, founded by Gustav III in 1788 and housed since 1908 in Fredrik Lilljekvist's Jugend building at Nybroplan, Stockholm. Distinguishing facts: wholly state-owned limited company, six stages led by Stora scenen (770 seats), about 1,000 performances and 210,000 visitors yearly.
Royal dukedoms in the United Kingdom
Royal dukedoms in the United Kingdom: dukedoms (Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Lancaster, Duke of York, others) conferred on royal family members; dukedoms are the highest peerage rank, Cornwall goes to the heir, Lancaster to the sovereign, and they return to the Crown without a male heir.
Royal Earlswood Hospital
Royal Earlswood Hospital, originally the Asylum for Idiots (1847) and Earlswood Asylum, Redhill, Surrey, was Britain's first purpose-built institution for people with learning disabilities, where John Langdon Down identified Down's syndrome in 1866; closed 1997.
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, also known as the Edinburgh Tattoo, is an annual show of military bands, dancing, and drilling held each August at Edinburgh Castle.
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME): British Army corps formed 1 October 1942 to maintain, recover, repair and modify all Army equipment; organized into battalions, with the REME Museum at Lyneham preserving its history.
Royal Enfield (India)
Royal Enfield, also known as Enfield India, is an Indian motorcycle manufacturer based in Chennai and a division of Eicher Motors, building motorcycles since 1901.
Royal Enfield Bullet
The Royal Enfield Bullet is a single-cylinder motorcycle first made in Redditch, England, in 1932 and built in India since 1955, in continuous production since 1949.
Royal Enfield Guerrilla 450
The Royal Enfield Guerrilla 450 is a roadster motorcycle from Indian manufacturer Royal Enfield, launched in July 2024 and powered by a 452 cc liquid-cooled single engine.
Royal Enfield Himalayan
The Royal Enfield Himalayan is an adventure-touring motorcycle from Indian manufacturer Royal Enfield, designed for riding in the Himalayas and launched in 2016, then replaced by a 450 cc liquid-cooled model in 2023.
Royal Engineers
The Corps of Royal Engineers, formed in 1716, is the British Army's combat support corps for military engineering; its soldiers, known as Sappers, are headquartered at Chatham, Kent.
Royal Engineers A.F.C.
Royal Engineers A.F.C., founded 1863 at Chatham by the Corps of Royal Engineers, reached four of the first seven FA Cup finals, won the 1875 Cup, and pioneered passing's combination game.
Royal Engineers Museum
Royal Engineers Museum (REM), regimental museum of the Corps of Royal Engineers in Gillingham, Kent, at Brompton Barracks. Holds over 1 million Designated-collection items, 25 Victoria Crosses, Wellington's Waterloo map, a V2 rocket; opened at the Ravelin Building in 1987.
Royal Entomological Society
Royal Entomological Society (RES), founded 3 May 1833 in London, is a UK learned society and charity (no. 213620) for insect science, publishing eight entomology journals, identification handbooks since 1949, and running Insect Week; Royal title granted 1933.
Royal Exchange, Manchester
The Royal Exchange, Manchester: a producing theatre-in-the-round opened 15 September 1976, a seven-sided steel pod inside the Grade II listed former cotton exchange on St Ann's Square, seating 759, rebuilt after the 1996 IRA bomb.
Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens
Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Melbourne: Joseph Reed's 1879–1880 Great Hall and gardens, built for the 1880 and 1888 international exhibitions; UNESCO World Heritage listed 2004, the only surviving Palace of Industry Great Hall.
Royal families of the United Arab Emirates
The royal families of the United Arab Emirates are the six hereditary dynasties, led by the Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi and the Al Maktoum of Dubai, that rule the country's seven emirates.
Royal family
The British royal family: the monarch's family whose working members perform state, ceremonial and charitable duties. Key facts: 11 working royals (2024), 2,273 engagements in 2025-26, £132.1m Sovereign Grant, ~3,000 patronages, statutory succession under the Act of Settlement.
Royal Family Order of Charles III
The Royal Family Order of Charles III is King Charles III's personal honour for female royals: an Elizabeth Meek oil miniature (4x3 cm) in a diamond-set frame, first worn by Queen Camilla on 25 June 2024; its ribbon color is reported variously as pale blue or pale green.