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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 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.

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).

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)

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)

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

This object is an ancient Israelite royal fortress gate, made out of limestone. It was excavated from Hazor and dates to the Iron Age II (9th BCE). (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) ©The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Used with permission. Israel...

An artist's depiction of a royal funerary procession in the Middle Ages. From the game Old World.