Ranks of nobility

Traditional ranks amongst European royalty, peers, and nobility #writing #history

Traditional rank amongst European royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Although they vary over time...

A royal family hierarchy is typically a large family consisting of different members. The members include the spouse of monarch, who is ruling presently, the spouses of a monarch who is deceased, brother, sister, cousins and grandchildren of the present monarch.

The nobility of Britain from highest to lowest rank. For extremely formal ceremonial occasions, such as a coronation, peers would wear coronets (whether or not they were ornamented with beryls). Each rank of the peerage had a distinctive coronet.

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I’ve had many people ask me about royal ranks and titles. This illustration is a great source for understanding royal rank (not just the…