Royal Highness

HRH is an abbreviation for His / Her Royal Highness (English for His / Her Royal Highness ) and ( then "Your Royal Highness " ) used as a salutation and name suffix for some members of the English royal family.

George V decreed in 1917 that the title of Prince / Princess with the addition of Royal Highness solely attributable to the children of these children and the eldest son of the son of the Prince of Wales to the children of the monarch. All other persons who bore the title until then were allowed to take him only by special permission by the monarch. This provision restricted the hitherto laid down for the first time of Queen Victoria's use of address Highness in different forms and has been used since then. The regulation was amended in 2012 by Queen Elizabeth II today that all children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales may use the title Prince / Princess with the addition of Royal Highness.

Although the addition of HRH Prince or Princess is a reserved, but still not absolutely bound to this. So Prince Philip was in 1947 awarded the Duke of Edinburgh HRH the addition, but only in 1957 he became a prince. In this case, the title of the Duke would even placed on the Prince. Another example of this method is Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, which is also the additional HRH would have been entitled.

Queen Elizabeth II decreed in 1996 that spouses of members of the royal family would lose the additional name in a divorce. This decision was based on the divorce of Diana, Princess of Wales HRH Prince of Charles, Prince of Wales and was also applied to Sarah, Duchess of York.

The French name is Son Altesse royale, abbreviated SAR in the plural Leurs Altesses royales abbreviated as LL. AA. RR ..

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• Title of nobility
• British nobility