Her Majesty

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Her Majesty is the formal royal style used to address or refer to a reigning queen such as Anne, Queen of Great Britain.

Observed surface forms (6)


Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf form of address
honorific
royal style
addressFormType style of sovereignty
appliesToTitleHolder queen regnant
reigning queen
belongsToRegister honorific speech
belongsToSystem monarchical forms of address
correspondsToMaleForm His Majesty
genderAssociation female
hasAbbreviation HM
hasFormalityLevel formal
hasHigherStyleThan Her Majesty self-linksurface differs
surface form: Her Royal Highness
hasOppositeNumberForm Their Majesties
historicallyUsedFor Anne, Queen of Great Britain
Elizabeth II
Queen Victoria
surface form: Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom
isHigherStyleOf Her Highness
language English
notTypicallyUsedFor queen consort
partOf royal etiquette
royal protocol
requires recognition of sovereign status
semanticType third-person reference form
usedBy foreign diplomats
government officials
media in formal contexts
subjects of the crown
usedFor addressing a reigning queen
referring to a reigning queen
usedIn monarchies
royal courts
usedInContext diplomatic correspondence
formal documents
legal instruments
official proclamations
state ceremonies
usedInCountry Australia
Canada
New Zealand
United Kingdom
other Commonwealth realms
usedWithName Anne, Queen of Great Britain
usedWithTitle Elizabeth II
surface form: Queen of Australia

Elizabeth II
surface form: Queen of Canada

British monarch
surface form: Queen of Great Britain

Queen of New Zealand
British monarch
surface form: Queen of the United Kingdom

Referenced by (32)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

HM hasGenderedForm Her Majesty
Her Majesty hasHigherStyleThan Her Majesty self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Her Royal Highness
Beatrix honorificPrefix Her Majesty
Masako Owada honorificPrefix Her Majesty
Empress Masako honorificTitle Her Majesty
this entity surface form: Her Majesty The Empress
British Crown representedBy Her Majesty
this entity surface form: the Queen
HM standsFor Her Majesty
Anne, Queen of Great Britain style Her Majesty
Beatrix style Her Majesty
Camilla, Queen Consort style Her Majesty
this entity surface form: Her Majesty The Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands style Her Majesty
this entity surface form: Her Majesty The Queen
Mathilde of Belgium style Her Majesty
this entity surface form: Her Majesty The Queen
Queen Victoria style Her Majesty
Queen of Antigua and Barbuda style Her Majesty
Queen of Belize style Her Majesty
this entity surface form: Her_Majesty
Queen of Grenada style Her Majesty
Queen of New Zealand style Her Majesty
Queen of Papua New Guinea style Her Majesty
Queen of Saint Lucia style Her Majesty
Queen of Tuvalu style Her Majesty
Queen of the Bahamas style Her Majesty
DCMG styleGranted Her Majesty
this entity surface form: Dame
this entity surface form: Her Majesty The Queen
King of Ireland styleOfAddress Her Majesty
Alexandra of Denmark title Her Majesty
this entity surface form: Her Majesty The Queen
British monarch titleStyle Her Majesty