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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 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 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 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 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 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.
Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA): UK Ministry of Defence civilian-manned, uniformed fleet, founded 1905, supplying fuel, ammunition and stores to the Royal Navy; 12 vessels in 2026, with three £1.6bn Fleet Solid Support ships under construction.
Royal forest
Royal forest: land in medieval England and Wales placed under special crown jurisdiction (forest law) for royal hunting, not necessarily wooded; at its height about a quarter of England, reformed by the 1217 Charter of the Forest and abolished in 1971.
Royal Frankish Annals
The Royal Frankish Annals (Annales regni Francorum) are a Latin year-by-year record of Carolingian rule covering 741 to 829, and the most important narrative source for the early Carolingian empire.
Royal Fusiliers
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), British infantry regiment raised 1685 at the Tower of London, first fusilier regiment, 7th Foot, London's city regiment, amalgamated 1968 into the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
Royal Gibraltar Regiment
The Royal Gibraltar Regiment (RG), nicknamed the Barbarians, is a light role infantry unit of the British Army based at Devil's Tower Camp, Gibraltar, tracing to the Gibraltar Defence Force of 28 April 1939, gaining the Royal prefix in 1999, and combining local defence with overseas deployments and ceremonial duties.
Royal Golden Eagle Group
Royal Golden Eagle Group is a Singapore-headquartered natural resources group controlled by Indonesian-born tycoon Sukanto Tanoto, with businesses in pulp and paper, viscose, and palm oil.
Royal Grammar School Worcester
Royal Grammar School Worcester (RGS Worcester), independent co-educational day school in Worcester, England, founded around 685 by Bishop Bosel; senior school of the RGS family of four schools, Tes Independent Senior School of the Year 2026.
Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe (RGS): selective boys' grammar academy and boarding school in Buckinghamshire, chartered 1562, Amersham Hill site since 1915, co-ed sixth form from 2025, headmaster Philip Wayne.
Royal Green Jackets
The Royal Green Jackets was a British Army infantry regiment formed in 1966 from the Green Jackets Brigade (43rd/52nd, KRRC, Rifle Brigade) and amalgamated into The Rifles in 2007; motto Celer et Audax.
Royal Group
Royal Group is the private family office and holding vehicle of Abu Dhabi's ruling Al Nahyan family, chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed and long the biggest shareholder of IHC.
Royal Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas
The Royal Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas (Real Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas) was a Spanish trading company chartered in 1728 that held a monopoly on trade between Spain and Venezuela.
Royal Gurkha Rifles
The Royal Gurkha Rifles (RGR) is the British Army rifle regiment of the Brigade of Gurkhas, formed 1 July 1994 from the 2nd, 6th, 7th and 10th Gurkha Rifles; two battalions based at Shorncliffe and Brunei, soldiers recruited in Nepal.
Royal High School, Edinburgh
The Royal High School, Edinburgh, a non-denominational comprehensive secondary school at Barnton since 1968, generally dated to 1128 and one of Europe's oldest schools; former pupils include Walter Scott and Alexander Graham Bell.
Royal Highness
Royal Highness (HRH) is a royal style of address for members of a royal family, distinct from Majesty. In Britain it is granted and removed by Letters Patent, held by monarchs' children and male-line grandchildren, not used by the Sussexes and removed from Andrew Mountbatten Windsor in 2025.
Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London (Royal Holloway and Bedford New College) is a University of London college in Egham, Surrey, formed by the 1985 merger of Bedford College (1849) and Royal Holloway College (1886), two pioneer women's colleges.
Royal Hospital Chelsea
Royal Hospital Chelsea: London retirement and nursing home for British Army veterans, founded by Royal Warrant of Charles II in 1681, built 1682-1702 to Christopher Wren's designs, first 99 Chelsea Pensioners admitted 1692.
Royal Households of the United Kingdom
Royal Households of the United Kingdom: the staff organization supporting the monarch and working royals, with five departments under the Lord Chamberlain, Sovereign Grant funding since the 2011 Act, and medieval origins including the Royal Wardrobe.
Royal Hungary
Royal Hungary (Királyi Magyarország) was the western and northern strip of the Kingdom of Hungary that stayed under Habsburg rule between 1526 and 1699, after Ottoman conquest divided the country into three parts.
Royal Indian Navy mutiny
The Royal Indian Navy mutiny (1946 Naval Uprising) was a February 1946 revolt of Indian naval ratings begun at HMIS Talwar, Bombay, spreading to thousands of sailors and dozens of ships; Congress and the League withheld support while Communists backed it, and it ended in late February 1946.
Royal inscriptions of Darius I
The royal inscriptions of Darius I (کتیبههای داریوش) are official proclamations carved for the Persian king Darius I at Bisitun, Persepolis, Naqsh-e Rustam, and Susa from 522 BC.
Royal Institute of British Architects
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), founded 1834, chartered 1837: UK professional body and charity for architects with 52,000 members, distinct from the statutory regulator ARB, validating 230+ programs and running the Stirling Prize.