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A 1907 CE painting showing ships of the English Royal Navy during the Elizabethan period (1558-1603 CE).

A modern re-enactment of a traditional Korean wedding. Such richly embroidered clothes could only be worn by women of the royal or ‘sacred bone’ (seonggol) class in the Korean bone rank system used in the Silla period (57 BCE - 935 CE).

The lion engraved on this duck-shaped weight shows that this is an official palace weight and therefore a royal property. Neo-Assyrian Period, 800-700 BCE. From the North-West Palace at Nimrud, Northern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. (British...

The inner court side of the Royal Lodge at the 15th century CE Chateau d'Amboise, Amboise, France.

Alabaster work relief of an Assyrian royal attendant, from the northwest palace of Ashurnasirpal II. Reign of Ashurnasirpal II, 883-859 BCE, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia. (The Burrell Collection, Glasgow).

The St. Margaret’s Chapel and Royal Magdalene Almshouses in Glastonbury, Somerset. A chapel dedicated to St. Margaret was built in the 1070s CE on Magdalene Street, originally as a hospital, but the preserved building dates from 1444 CE.

A print showing the Royal Observatory in Greenwich near London, founded in 1675. Engraving by Francis Place after Robert Thacker c. 1678. (British Library, London)

This is the entrance to the excavated ruins of the royal palace at Ugarit.

The Royal Villa is located northeast of the Palace of Knossos (Crete). It was built on the east slope of the hill of Knossos and consisted of a ground floor and two other floors which survive in relatively good condition.

A Royal Mint steam hammer, a device invented by James Nasmyth (1808-1890) in 1839 during the Industrial Revolution. (The Science Museum, London)