Pub Names - Royalty

Royalty

Royal names have always been popular (except under the Commonwealth). It demonstrated the landlord's loyalty to authority (whether he was loyal or not), especially after the restoration of the monarchy. "Royal George" is the name of a ship.

  • Crown
  • King's Arms
  • King's Head
  • King and Queen: Celebrates the dual monarchy of William III and Mary II.
  • Queen's Arms
  • Queen's Head
  • British Queen
  • Alexandra: Wife of Edward VII.
  • Prince Leopold, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire: Queen Victoria's fourth son.
  • Queen Victoria reigned at the time of greatest expansion of housing stock and associated public houses, and at the height of the British Empire. She inspired great loyalty and affection, and publicans aimed to reflect this.
  • Prince of Wales: the title of the heir to the monarchy was also popular in Victorian times, when Albert Edward was the longest-serving holder of the title.
  • Princess of Wales: Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, a number of pubs were renamed Princess of Wales, including the Prince of Wales on Morden Road in South Wimbledon. The sign replaced with an image of a white rose; Diana was called "England's Rose" in a popular song at the time by Elton John.
  • Prince Regent: the title of the future George IV, in the Regency period.
  • Sovereign

See also Heraldry above.

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Famous quotes containing the word royalty:

    “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)

    “Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.”
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

    “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)