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Royal Troon Golf Club
Royal Troon Golf Club, founded 1878 in Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland, is an Open Championship rota links. Its Old Course hosted ten Opens (2024 winner Xander Schauffele) and features the 123-yard Postage Stamp 8th.
Royal Tunbridge Wells
Royal Tunbridge Wells is a spa town in western Kent, England, founded on the chalybeate spring discovered in 1606 at the Pantiles; it received its Royal prefix from Edward VII in 1909 and had about 59,000 residents in 2025.
Royal turf
Royal Turf (ロイヤルターフ) is a 2001 Reiner Knizia horse-racing betting board game, later republished as Winner's Circle, in which 2-6 players bet on seven horses across three races; the richest player wins.
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), police force of Northern Ireland from 1 June 1922 until it became the Police Service of Northern Ireland on 4 November 2001; 312 officers killed, awarded the George Cross in 2000.
Royal United Services Institute
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), or Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies: British independent defence and security think tank and charity (no. 210639), founded 1831 by the Duke of Wellington, oldest such institute in the world, based in Whitehall with offices in Brussels and Nairobi.
Royal Variety Performance
The Royal Variety Performance is the UK's annual royal charity variety gala, begun as a Royal Command Performance on 1 July 1912 before George V, held since 1921 in aid of the Royal Variety Charity and Brinsworth House, now televised to over 152 million viewers.
Royal Victorian Order
The Royal Victorian Order (RVO) is a British order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1896 for personal service to the Sovereign or Royal Family, appointed solely at the monarch's discretion in five grades plus a medal and the Royal Victorian Chain.
Royal Wadi and tombs
The Royal Wadi and tombs at Amarna, Egypt, are the royal cemetery of Akhenaten's court, centered on the Royal Tomb cut for the king's family.
Royal Warriors
Royal Warriors (皇家戰士, Wong ga jin si) is a 1986 Hong Kong action film directed by David Chung for D&B Films, starring Michelle Yeoh, Michael Wong, and Hiroyuki Sanada; the second In the Line of Duty film, about cops hunted after foiling a hijacking.
Royal we
Royal we (pluralis majestatis) is the plural pronoun a monarch or high officeholder uses for self-reference; also called nosism. Distinct from the authorial and editorial we, it dates in English and French to the 12th century and survives in ceremonial speech.
Royal Wedding
Royal Wedding (1951) is an MGM musical, Stanley Donen's first solo film, starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell as a sibling dance act in London during Princess Elizabeth's wedding, famous for Astaire's rotating-room ceiling dance and the Oscar-nominated song "Too Late Now."
Royal Windsor Horse Show
Royal Windsor Horse Show is an annual equestrian event held each May in the private grounds of Windsor Castle, England, first staged in 1943 to raise war funds.
Royal yacht
A royal yacht is a ship placed at the disposal of a monarch or royal family for official visits and state receptions, the type's best-known example being Britain's HMY Britannia.
Royal Yachting Association
Royal Yachting Association (RYA), UK national governing body for sailing and boating, founded 1875 as the Yacht Racing Association; 100,000+ members, 2,400+ training centers in 58 countries, Yachtmaster qualifications.
Royale Lynn
Royale Lynn is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Aylmer, Ontario, based in Nashville; after country singles from 2021 (Rocket Man), her 2023 punktry track Six Feet Deep topped Billboard's Hard Rock Digital Sales chart, leading to Epitaph Records and the 2025 Pandora's Box concept album BLACK MAGIC.
Royale Union Saint-Gilloise
Royale Union Saint-Gilloise (RUSG, Union SG), Brussels football club founded 1897, matricule 10, yellow and blue. Eleven pre-war titles, 48-year exile ended 2021, 2024 Cup, 2025 title, owned by Alex Muzio with Tony Bloom backing.
Royalist Army of Peru
The Royalist Army of Peru (Ejército Realista del Perú) was the viceroys' army fighting South American revolutionaries from 1810 until its defeat at Ayacucho in 1824.
Royals (Lorde song)
Royals, Lorde's 2013 debut single co-written with Joel Little, is a minimalist electropop critique of pop luxury culture. It spent nine weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and won the 2014 Grammys for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Royalties (2020 TV series)
Royalties is a 2020 Quibi musical comedy created by Darren Criss, starring Criss and Kether Donohue as songwriters Pierce and Sara; ten 8-minute episodes directed by Amy Heckerling, canceled after one season, later a Roku Original.
Royalty (Chris Brown album)
Royalty is the seventh studio album by American R&B singer Chris Brown, released December 18, 2015 on RCA Records. Named after his daughter Royalty Brown, recorded at Record Plant, it topped iTunes on release and peaked at 23 in the UK.
Royalty payment
Royalty payment: a fee paid to an asset's owner for use of or rights to it, usually intangible property such as copyright, patents, trademarks, or know-how; defined in OECD Article 12, set by contract rates, advances, guarantees, audits, and withholding tax rules.
ROYAN Resturant
ROYAN Resturant (مطعم رويان), also called بحيرة البجع swan lake, is a Baghdad, Iraq restaurant tagged as a casino on OpenStreetMap, open 24/7 near Al-Shaheed Monument; distinct from Bahrain's مطعم رويان company and France's Casino Barrière Royan.
Royat Roman Baths
Royat Roman Baths (thermes antiques de Royat): Gallo-Roman bathing complex in Puy-de-Dôme, France, using springs from the 1st century CE; discovered 1876, classified Monument historique 1889, one pool remains visible.
Royce C. Lamberth
Royce C. Lamberth, born 1943 in San Antonio, Texas, is a senior judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, appointed by Reagan in 1987.
Royce da 5'9"
Royce da 5'9" (Ryan Montgomery, born 1977, Detroit) is a rapper, member of Bad Meets Evil with Eminem, Slaughterhouse, and PRhyme with DJ Premier; eight solo albums including Book of Ryan and The Allegory.
Royce Duplessis
Royce Duplessis is an American Democratic politician and attorney who represents District 5 in New Orleans in the Louisiana State Senate, elected in 2022 after serving in the House since 2018.
Royce Gracie
Royce Gracie, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1966, is a retired Brazilian mixed martial artist who won UFC 1, 2, and 4 and spread Brazilian jiu-jitsu worldwide.
Royce Isaacs
Royce Isaacs, "The Mile High Samurai" (also billed Royce Isaac$), is an American professional wrestler from Denver, Colorado; one-half of the World Class Wrecking Crew with Jorel Nelson, a former NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Team and NWA World Tag Team champion known for catch-wrestling-based submission grappling.
Royce Pierreson
Royce Pierreson (born 1989, Saltash, Cornwall) is an English actor known for Reece in Murdered by My Boyfriend, Istredd in The Witcher, and Dr Watson in The Irregulars; also a producer via Another Method.
Royce W. Murray
Royce W. Murray (1937–2022) was an American electrochemist and Kenan Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for introducing chemically modified electrodes and for gold nanocluster electrochemistry.