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Royal Society of Literature
The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a British charity for the advancement of literature, founded in 1820 with support from George IV and led by writers.
Royal Society of Medicine
The Royal Society of Medicine is a London membership organization and UK charity advancing health across medical specialties, founded in 1805 and based at 1 Wimpole Street, Marylebone.
Royal Society Range
The Royal Society Range is a mountain range in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, part of the Transantarctic Mountains on the western side of McMurdo Sound.
Royal Society Te Apārangi
Royal Society Te Apārangi, legal name Royal Society of New Zealand, founded 1867 as the New Zealand Institute, is New Zealand's national academy of sciences, technology and the humanities, publishing eight journals, awarding the Rutherford Medal, administering the Marsden Fund, and advising government.
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼)
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼) is GAINAX's 1987 debut anime film, directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, about Shirotsugh Lhadatt's first manned spaceflight in the Kingdom of Honneamise.
Royal Spanish Football Federation
Royal Spanish Football Federation (Real Federación Española de Fútbol, RFEF), founded 29 September 1909, governs Spanish football, futsal, beach soccer, and powerchair football; FIFA and UEFA member led by Rafael Louzán since December 2024.
Royal St George's Golf Club
Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, Kent, founded 1887 by Dr William Laidlaw Purves; first Open venue outside Scotland (1894), 15 Opens including Morikawa's 2021 win; AIG Women's Open debut 2027.
Royal Stag
Royal Stag (Seagram's Royal Stag), Indian blended whisky launched 1995 by Seagram, Pernod Ricard since 2001; blend of Scotch malts and Indian grain spirits, no artificial flavourings; world's largest-selling whisky, 32.6m cases in 2025.
Royal Standard of the United Kingdom
The Royal Standard of the United Kingdom is the Sovereign's banner of the Royal Arms, quartered England, Scotland, Ireland (reversed in Scotland), flown only where the monarch is present, never at half mast, in its present form since the 1957 Bellew revision.
Royal State Railways of Siam
The Royal State Railways of Siam was the state railway organization of the Kingdom of Siam, established in 1890 and renamed the State Railway of Thailand in 1951.
Royal Statistical Society
The Royal Statistical Society is a British learned society and professional body for statistics, founded in London in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London.
Royal steward
The royal steward, Hebrew ʾăšer ʿal-habbayit ("the one who is over the house"), was the highest court office beneath the king in Judah in the 8th and 7th centuries BC.
Royal Steward Inscription
The Royal Steward Inscription, also known as the Shebna inscription, is a Paleo-Hebrew epitaph from a rock-cut tomb at Silwan, Jerusalem, dating to the 7th century BCE.
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA, Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien) is an independent Swedish academy founded in 1919, the world's oldest academy of engineering sciences.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien), independent Swedish learned society founded 1739, with ~480 Swedish and 175 foreign members in ten classes; it selects the Nobel laureates in Physics and Chemistry and the Riksbank economics prize.
Royal Tank Regiment
Royal Tank Regiment (RTR), British Army armoured regiment, oldest tank unit in the world; formed as Tank Corps 28 July 1917 from the Machine Gun Corps' Heavy Branch; Royal prefix 1923; renamed Royal Tank Regiment 1939; based at Tidworth with Challenger 2.
Royal Television Society
Royal Television Society (RTS): British educational charity founded as the Television Society at Leeds in September 1927 after a John Logie Baird lecture; Royal prefix 1966; charity 313728; runs Programme, Journalism, Craft & Design and Student awards and bursaries.
Royal Thai Air Force (กองทัพอากาศไทย)
Royal Thai Air Force (กองทัพอากาศไทย, RTAF), Thailand's air force, founded as the Army Air Corps on 27 March 1914 at Don Muang; operates 222 aircraft and is procuring Gripen E/F fighters from Sweden.
Royal Thai Armed Forces (กองทัพไทย)
Royal Thai Armed Forces (กองทัพไทย): Thailand's military, about 350,000 active personnel, with Army, Navy, Air Force under the Ministry of Defense; lottery conscription since 1954 and a long history of coups.
Royal Thai Army (กองทัพบกไทย)
The Royal Thai Army (กองทัพบกไทย) is the largest land component of the Royal Thai Armed Forces, receiving half the defense budget and leading political interventions since 1932.
Royal Thai Navy (กองทัพเรือไทย)
Royal Thai Navy (กองทัพเรือไทย, RTN, ทร.), Thailand's naval service: ~64,000 personnel, ~77 warships, the carrier Chakri Naruebet without fixed-wing aircraft since 2006, three area commands, marines, and unresolved Chinese S26T submarine purchase.
Royal Thai Police (สำนักงานตำรวจแห่งชาติ)
Royal Thai Police (สำนักงานตำรวจแห่งชาติ) is Thailand's national police force, governed by the Royal Thai Police Act B.E. 2547, with 1,451 stations, Metropolitan and Provincial commands, and Pol.Gen. Samran Nualma as 16th chief (2026).
Royal Thai Survey Department
The Royal Thai Survey Department (กรมแผนที่ทหาร) is the mapping and surveying agency of the Thai armed forces, established by royal decree in 1885 under Irish surveyor James Fitzroy McCarthy.
Royal Tomb of Akhenaten
The Royal Tomb of Akhenaten, also known as the Royal Tomb of Amarna, is a rock-cut tomb in the Royal Wadi at Amarna, Egypt, built for Akhenaten.
Royal Tombs of Byblos
The Royal Tombs of Byblos are richly equipped Bronze Age chamber tombs of Byblos's rulers in Lebanon, excavated by Pierre Montet in 1921-1924 and key to Levantine chronology.
Royal Tombs of Tanis
The Royal Tombs of Tanis (Nécropole royale de Tanis) are royal tombs inside the temple of Amun at Tanis, Egypt, where Pierre Montet found intact pharaoh burials in 1939.
Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty
Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty (조선왕릉), 40 UNESCO-listed tombs at 18 South Korean sites, built 1408–1966 for Joseon and Korean Empire rulers; Confucian, pungsu-sited tombs with living ancestral rites.
Royal Tombs of Vergina
The Royal Tombs of Vergina are four Macedonian royal burial chambers beneath the Great Tumulus at Vergina, ancient Aigai, excavated by Manolis Andronikos in 1977 and 1978.
Royal Tramp (鹿鼎记)
Royal Tramp (鹿鼎记) is a 1992 Hong Kong comedy directed by Wong Jing, starring Stephen Chow and adapted from Jin Yong's novel The Deer and the Cauldron.
Royal Tramp II (鹿鼎记2神龙教)
Royal Tramp II (鹿鼎記II神龍教) is Wong Jing's 1992 Hong Kong wuxia comedy sequel to Royal Tramp, starring Stephen Chow as Wai Siu-bo opposite Brigitte Lin's Dragon Sect leader Lung Erh, adapted from Jin Yong's The Deer and the Cauldron and ranked fourth at the 1992 Hong Kong box office.