Royalty may refer to:
- Royal family (by extension the ruling house of any monarchy, regardless of the title), or one or more of its members
- Royalties, the payment made (originally to the licensing crown) for a concession of commercial value (e.g. mining rights) or to the owner of a copyright, patent, trademark or know-how for its use
- Royalty Records, a record label
- Royalty (card game), a climbing game
- "Royalty (song)", a song by Down with Webster
- Royalty (grape), a variety of grape
- Royalty (Childish Gambino Mixtape), a 2012 album by hip-hop artist Donald Glover, released under his moniker Childish Gambino.
Famous quotes containing the word royalty:
“Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent—a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.”
—Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908)
“Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)