Example sentences of "of the royal house " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from these Mayors of the Palace — senior officers of the royal house — that Charlemagne 's ancestors were eventually to become kings in their own right . |
| 2 | The headmaster paused , reminding himself of his conclusion that the privilege of educating the sons of the royal house had been conferred on this school because it was uniquely endowed with a philosophy which informed all its actions and made it equal to the task . |
| 3 | Both Lucullus and his successor Pompey displayed works of art that were the property of the royal house of Pontus , emphasising the crushing of the dynasty by Rome . |
| 4 | Admittedly , they were of the royal house of Hapsburg but they were no less dead for that . |
| 5 | At the same time there had grown up , mainly during the twelfth century , the extension of the authority of the royal house of France , the dynasty of Capet , through the insistence that the homage due from the great feudatories to their king should be ‘ liege ’ . |