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- noun a
style customarily (but not automatically) awarded by a British monarch to his or her eldestdaughter .
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Examples
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And how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him some money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 05: May 1660 Samuel Pepys 1668
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And how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him some money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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And how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him some money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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And how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him some money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1660 Pepys, Samuel 1660
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Pepys, who had it from an eye-witness, records "how overjoyed the king was when Sir J. Grenville brought him some money; so joyful that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out." (
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The Princess Royal was the first who was taken with him: Miss Hyde seemed to be following the steps of her mistress: this immediately brought him into credit, and his reputation was established in England before his arrival.
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I know not which I can distinguish more than another, though perhaps the Princess Royal is my pattern for all that is excellent and sweet.
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Prussian throne -- that is, our Princess Royal's husband, subsequently the
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887
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Baron Stockmar states that the Princess Royal was a delicate child, causing considerable apprehension for her successful rearing during the first year of her life.
Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 Sarah Tytler 1870
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A residence had been taken for the couple in a very fashionable row of buildings abutting upon the Bayswater Road, called Princess Royal
The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope 1848
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