(1) There wasn't a stiffness or an awkwardness, which there can be sometimes with other members of the royal family because you're so aware of protocol.

(2) His wife, he said, understood the pressures of a life as a royal butler because she was the Duke of Edinburgh's maid for 16 years.

(3) This weekend bonanza got off to a flying start when the guests were welcomed in the royal traditional style, garlanded and saluted by elephants.

(4) He ensured there were Tudor roses on the gowns of the staff and on the Tudor coloured counterpanes of the beds; the roof and stained glass windows were also of royal quality.

(5) Factions formed around the heir to the throne and other members of the royal family as well as in the entourage of ministers.

(6) When Queen Hatsheput moved her court to Punt, an artist of the time did a wall painting which still exists, showing royal attendants carrying sheaves of herbs.

(7) He's a royal coward

(8) Stuart and Rosemary Robson have translated and edited eighteen essays about Javanese royal palaces in the late colonial period.

(9) Political leaders saddened by Princess Margaret's death have paid tribute to the popular royal .

(10) The Restoration brought back the Stuarts but not intensive royal patronage.

(11) Puppies are a royal pain, because they chew everything and you have to potty train them.

(12) In addition to all this, they've had several members of the royal family, government officials and business leaders visiting from Thailand.

(13) The Queen is not the only member of the royal family to have personal flags.

(14) Legal experts said the couple could not marry in a civil ceremony in England because the 1836 Marriage Act bars members of the royal family from doing so.

(15) The production company yesterday handed over tapes of footage it had shot in St Andrews to Buckingham Palace for royal officials to examine.

(16) Near the end of his reign, King Behanzin ordered his troops to burn the royal palaces rather than see them fall into French hands.

(17) Prince Charles gave the royal seal of approval to the appeal launched by St John's Church in Devizes by attending a fundraising concert.

(18) The royal couple greeted villagers after attending a church service this morning.

(19) State honors, generally reserved for members of the Nepalese royal family, were given to Babu Chhiri, who established at least two climbing records.

(20) Updating may be a snap with a cable modem, but it's a royal pain with even the fastest dial-up connection.