//Absurdly helpful for people writing royal characters and/or characters who interact with royalty and members of the nobility.
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Citizen is simpler and more beautiful~ but just in case anyone needs this.
DUDE BUT THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE
in medieval times you ONLY addressed a king/queen with “Your Majesty”, NEVER “Your Highness”. To address a king/queen with “Your Highness” was considered an insult.
Playing in a Rennisance LARP, this was one of the most frustrating thing I saw happen. At 12,id yell at full grown adults and ask them why they addressed the “king/queen” of the group as “highness” when it should never have been that. It was rude, but I got scoffed at for being 12. Not like I didn’t really dig this stuff or anything.
It wasn’t as linear as all that because there was not really a “medieval times” code book.
The official designation/style for Royalty could have been any expression of superiority:
your grace, your majesty, your excellence.
Keep in mind that a duke and a king were often separated by little more than circumstance. In power and influence they were rivals on many fields of competition.
Furthermore, as the system became more codified the rules became even less obvious. You don’t continue to say “Your Majesty” after the first statement of the title.
So it’s not really cut and dry. Write what you want and be internally consistent.
Also, for those of you wondering about Emperors/Empresses, the proper address is “Your Imperial Majesty” and introduce them as “His/Her Imperial Majesty, Emperor/Empress (name) of (their domain).”
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