Royal house

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Royal House, Regia House or His Majesty's House are conventional denominations of the house of a king or sovereign of a hereditary monarchy; in the sense that it embraces the whole family (royal family) and servitude. It is also understood as the prolongation in time (ancestors and descendants) and in space (different kingdoms) of the members of that house, that is, the whole of a dynasty (real dynasty).

The king's personal servants, ennoblished since the Middle Ages with the exercise of the customs of Court, ended up generating in the Old Regime an ever more abundant and complex bureaucracy (what in the contemporary states is government and public service), which became an opportunity for social and prestige promotion (Church, sea or Royal House). The attraction of the aristocracy (which very often was identified with the related families, in theory or in fact, with the royal family - pairs of France, large of Spain, parrots -) to the royal court ended up making it necessary to differentiate between House and Court from the king (in the Hispanic Monarchy there was the institution called the Hall of Mayors of House and Court).

The whole of the real houses of the different kingdoms in the sense of dynasties, including the non-prevailing side branches and even the suitors to vacant thrones (in countries that have ceased to have king - most of the countries of the world -), provided they enjoy some recognition of one of the royal houses, is known as royalty.

The family name that is followed to the name of the members of a royal house, and the same name, is very variable: it can be a family name (House of Estuardo, House of Bernadotte, House of Osman, House of Saud, House of Grimaldi, House of Grimaldi), but the most common thing is to make it coincide with the territory on which it reigns or aspires to reign (House of Burgundy, House of Greece); but on many occasions it is preserved, for matters of prestige or tradition, that of other places where it was reestablished, the original House of House of House of the House of Taura, House of Taura (House of the House of Taura, House of Taura, House of the House of Taura, House of Taura, House of Taura, House of the. Sometimes the name of the royal house is altered by purely political issues (Windsor House).

Examples
The house of Saxony - Coburgo- Gotha, for example, originated in Germany as a ducal and electoral family. Today, it has no status in Germany, but various branches sit on several European thrones, including those of the United Kingdom and Belgium. The former monarchs of Portugal and Bulgaria also belonged to this house, although not closely related, as they descended from various branches, some of them with margins of centuries. The real names of the houses in Europe are taken from the father; in case a queen reigns her prince with a princess from another house, her children (and therefore the subsequent monarchs) belong to her house. So Queen Victoria