"a royal connection" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the relationship between a person and a royal family. For example, "Henry has a royal connection due to his grandfather's service as a courtier in the king's court."
But first Ms. Masterson needed a royal connection.
"She has a royal connection which she is very protective of".
For those who insist on a royal connection, note also that his father was an Anglophile who named his son after George VI.
"She has a royal connection which she is very protective of". The collection shows that Broom was a witness to the key moments of early 20th century life in London including being one of only two people allowed to photograph Edward VII lying in state.
Mike Coxon adds Northwich Victoria to clubs with a royal connection: the former non-league powerhouse were founded in 1874 and named in honour of the then monarch Queen Victoria, whilst Nick Tolerton pipes up with Scottish juniors Blantyre Victoria, who produced Jock Stein and Billy McNeill.
Mr Simmons said he suspected there might be a royal connection when the order was placed.
However, as invitations went out in advance for 24 February some people who wondered aloud whether there would be any royal connection to the event.
There is a historical royal connection too: Queen Victoria was a grandmother of Queen Marie of Romania (1914 1927).
The walls are hung with faded posters advertising old Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals and in one corner, as if straining to make the royal connection, is a long mirror with a grand rococo frame, but the gilding is flaking away from it badly now.
* Yorkshire's last major royal connection with a monarch is believed to have been in 1535 when Henry, the 11th Lord Clifford converted Skipton Castle into Royal Apartments for his son's bride.
It is a moot point whether or not the royal connection vitiated Amies's design output.
