Sentence examples for become royal from inspiring English sources

The Countess of Wessex has accepted an invitation to become Royal patron of the Greater London Fund for the Blind.

But the delicate balance of suburban existence topples when sitting and driving become royal pains in the rear pocket.

News that the College of Occupational Therapists is to become royal – richly deserved, by the way – has rubbed a good deal of salt into that wound.

In 1461, when King Edward IV ascended the throne, the castle became royal property, and the town received a royal charter.

Vile set up a partnership in London with John Cobb about 1750 and became royal cabinetmaker the following year.

Enfield and Edmonton, which included Southgate until 1881, were recorded in Domesday Book (1086) and subsequently became royal manors.

Buache worked for his father-in-law, the cartographer Guillaume Delisle, and became royal geographer in 1729.

The following year Ken became royal chaplain to Charles II and soon after made his refusal to vacate his house in Winchester to the actress Nell Gwyn, Charles II's mistress.

In Morris's hands "rural" became "royal" - a ploy, perhaps, to enrage the easily enraged flag-waving Mail readers, for whom the Windsors are sacrosanct.

This procedure remained permanent for the seven northern provinces that won their independence from Spain and formed the Dutch Republic; in the provinces that reverted to Spanish rule, the stadtholders again became royal appointees and declined in importance.

And like another blond commoner who became royal, Diana of Wales, Grace of Monaco has also found fame as a "people's princess" in the aftermath of her tragic death in 1982.