Sentence examples for royal causes from inspiring English sources

The award of honours in exchange for donations to royal causes made the monarchy the predominant fount of charity.

Yet in his five and a half years as ambassador, he redeemed himself by hard work, his wife's talent for gracious entertaining (she later served as chief of protocol during the Reagan administration), and gifts to favorite royal causes like the restoration of St . Pauls Cathedral.

In 1643 the royal cause prospered, particularly in Yorkshire and the southwest.

I suggest that the antics of the Duchess of York, a.k.a Fergie, don't help the royal cause.

When recalcitrant barons rebelled against John late in 1215, Hubert scored several important military victories for the royal cause.

Sympathetic to the royal cause, he helped in producing Satire Ménippée (1594), a polemical tract that did much to damage the cause of the League.

From the reign of Henry VII, the Pastons were one of the most powerful families in East Anglia, but backed the royal cause in the civil war and lost their property.

Brézé also won distinction in the Praguerie (a revolt of the nobles against Charles in 1440), when he supported the royal cause against the dauphin Louis, a service remembered against him after Louis came to the throne (as Louis XI).

However, despite the Spanish failure to exploit militarily the victory of Gembloux, it rendered important political benefits to the royal cause in the Netherlands, as it shattered the unity of the Dutch rebels.

A red card for Gorkss did not help the Royals cause but they kept QPR at arm's length to secure the three points.

It's his desire to prove his worth as a royal that causes his horrible overreach: the capture of Helen — half seduction, half abduction — that leads to the disastrous war with the Achaeans.