Calling people “king” doesn’t make sense because if they were actually a king you’d say “your highness”
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"Your Grace" has enjoyed a royal Renaissance due in part to "Game of Thrones," where it's the main linguistic distinction between addressing a regular member of the nobility ("my Lord") and a monarch ("your Grace").https://youtu.be/mk1DXwb-XbM?t=38s …
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ISTR that the original style of a king was "Your Grace" and only the Holy Roman Emperor was addressed as "Your Majesty". "Majesty" only became common in the Late Middle Ages when everyone realized the HRE was a farce
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Don't know myself if that's true, but it seems about right in terms of timing.
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I've heard that Richard II, who was obsessed with the idea of monarchy as a sacred institution, was the first to insist on "Majesty" but Henry VIII made it the standard title to suggest he was "imperial" and thus subject to no man, only God
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