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Royal Mews The Royal Mews is the mews (stables and in recent times also the garage) of the British Royal Family in London. They have occupied two main sites, formerly at Charing Cross, and since the 1820s at Buckingham Palace.
Royal Mile The Royal Mile is the popular name for the succession of streets which form the main thoroughfare of Edinburgh's Old Town. As the name suggests, it was equivalent to a Scottish mile between the two foci of royal history in Scotland, from Edinburgh Castle at the top of the Castle Rock down to the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Royal Military Academy The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Signals and other technical corps.
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is the British Army officer initial training centre. Sandhurst is prestigious and has had many famous alumni including Sir Winston Churchill and, more recently, Prince Harry of Wales, Idi Amin, and Prince William of Wales.
Royal Military College (Malaysia) The Royal Military College (also known as RMC and sometimes dubbed the "the Sandhurst of Malaysia" and "The Synthesis of Eton-Sandhurst") is a premier boarding school in Malaysia. The sprawling RMC campus covers an area of 1200 acres amongst the Green Hills near the town of Sungei Besi (about 10 miles from Kuala Lumpur) with a magnificent view of the Mines Resort and the 1998 Commonwealth Games Bukit Jalil Stadium.
Royal Military Police The Royal Military Police (RMP) is the branch of the British Army responsible for the policing of service personnel and providing a military police presence on service property, operations and exercises.Ministry of Defence, Royal Military Police website, (accessed 15 Nov 06) Its members are generally known as Redcaps because they wear red-topped peaked caps or red berets.
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) (R MON RE(M)) is the most senior regiment in the British Army, having given continuous loyal service to the crown since 1539 and is now part of the reserve forces of the Territorial Army.
Royal Montreal Golf Club The Royal Montreal Golf Club was founded November 4, 1873 making it the oldest golf club in North America. In that year, a small group of eight gentlemen sat in a dockside office and formed the Montreal Golf Club.
Royal Moroccan Air Force The Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) (Arabic: القŮات الجŮŮŠŘ© الملŮŮŠŘ© المغربية ; transliterated: al-Qoat al-Jaoiyah al-Malakiyah al-Maghribiyah) is the official air force of Morocco. The Royal Moroccan Air Force flies a variety of Western-built airplanes.
Royal Munster Fusiliers (New Army) The Royal Munster Fusiliers had been a relatively small peacetime regiment of the British Army at the outbreak of War in August 1914. The need for considerable expansion of the British Army resulted in the formation of the First New Army under Lord Kitchener, with a planned period of service of at least three years.
Royal Museum for Central Africa The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) is an ethnographical and natural history museum in Tervuren in the suburbs of Brussels, Belgium. It was first built to show off King Leopold II's Congo Free State for the 1897 World Exhibition.
Royal National Institute of the Blind The Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) is a charity based in London, England, set up by Thomas Rhodes Armitage to lobby for and help people who are blind or partially sighted. Its patron is the Queen.
Royal National Lifeboat Institution The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a charity based in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland dedicated to saving lives at sea around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. It is largely a volunteer organisation and was founded on 4 March 1824 as the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, adopting the present name in 1854.
Royal National Mod The Royal National Mod, (), is the annual national mod, a festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture. It has been held most years in October since 1892, when it was first held in Oban with 10 competitors on a Saturday afternoon.
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) provides a comprehensive range of neuro-musculoskeletal health care, ranging from the most acute spinal injury or complex bone tumour to orthopaedic medicine and specialist rehabilitation for chronic back pain sufferers. This broad range of neuro-musculoskeletal services is unique within the NHS.
Royal National Theatre The Royal National Theatre is a theatre company which operates from a building of the same name on the South Bank in London, England immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge. The National Theatre's building was designed by architect Sir Denys Lasdun and opened in 1976.
Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society The Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society (RNARS) is a specialised group or club for Amateur Radio operators who have a link with maritime employment, such as members of a navy, merchant marine, or similar employment. As such, RNARS has become a [facto|de facto] international group for such people.
Royal Naval Auxiliary Service The Royal Naval Auxiliary Service (RNXS) was formed in 1962 from the Royal Naval Minewatching Service (RNMWS) in response to the nuclear threat to British ports. The service was disbanded on 31 March 1994 due to defence cuts.
Royal Naval College, Greenwich The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was a Royal Navy training establishment between 1873 and 1998, in the centre of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site in London. It provided a number of courses for naval officers including being home to the Royal Navy's staff college, the staff course providing advanced training for mid-ranking officers.
Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda HMD Bermuda (Her/His Majesty's Dockyard, Bermuda) was the principal base of the Royal Navy in the Western Atlantic between American independence and the Cold War. Bermuda had occupied a useful position astride the homeward leg taken by many European vessels from the New World since before its settlement by England in 1609.
Royal Navy The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore the Senior Service). From the early 18th century to the middle of the 20th century, it was the largest and most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant power of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath The Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, (RNCF), was set up at Holton Heath, Dorset in World War I to manufacture Cordite for the Royal Navy. It was reactivated in World War II to manufacture gun propellants for the Admiralty and its output was supplemented by the Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent.
Royal Navy Cricket Club The Royal Navy Cricket Club is a cricket team representing the British Royal Navy and based at Portsmouth, Hampshire. The club was formed in 1863, although cricket is recorded as having been played by seamen since at least the 17th century.
Royal Navy Dockyard Dockyards of the Royal Navy are harbours where either commissioned ships are based, or where ships are overhauled and refitted. Historically, the RN maintained a string of dockyards around the world, although few are now operating today.
Royal Navy in the 21st century At the beginning of the 1990s, the Royal Navy was a force designed for the Cold War - with its three ASW aircraft carriers and a force of small, though numerous, frigates and destroyers, its main purpose was to search for and destroy Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic. However, the Falklands War (1982) proved a need for the Royal Navy to maintain a bluewater capability.
Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent The Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent, Monmouthshire, (later RAF Caerwent) UK was associated with the manufacture or storage of ammunition components from 1939 to 1993. It is now used for a variety of military and civil purposes, including field exercises, car rallying, storage and breakdown of railway vehicles, and nature preservation.
Royal Navy surface fleet The Surface Fleet is the name given to the collection of surface vessels (as opposed to submarines or aircraft) of the British Royal Navy. As of 2002, it currently consists of two flotillas based at Portsmouth and Devonport, both on the south coast of England.
Royal Navy Submarine Museum Museum at Gosport tracing the international history of Submarine development from the age of Alexander the Great to the present day and the history of the Submarine Service from the tiny Holland 1 to the nuclear powered Vanguard class submarine - the Navy's present day peacekeepers. It is sited here due to HMS Dolphin shore-establishment.
Royal Navy Submarine Service The Royal Navy Submarine Service - sometimes known as the "Silent Service", on account of a submarine being required to operate quietly in order to remain undetected by enemy SONAR (or ASDIC as it was known in the RN pre-1948) - is the collective name given to the submarine element of the Royal Navy. The service consists of 10 Attack submarines (SSNs), of the Swiftsure and Trafalgar class, and four ballistic missile submarines(SSBN), of the Vanguard class.
Royal Netherlands Air Force The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), Dutch Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu), is the aviation branch of the Netherlands defence forces. Its ancestor, the Luchtvaartafdeling of the Dutch Army was founded on July 1, 1913, and it originally consisted of just 4 pilots.
Royal Netherlands Army The Royal Netherlands Army (Koninklijke Landmacht) is the land forces element of the military of the Netherlands. The core fighting element of the army is divided into three separate brigades: two mechanised and one airmobile.
Royal Netherlands Army reserve The Royal Dutch Army National Reserve (in Dutch corps Nationale Reserve, abbreviated Natres) is part of the Operational Commando (Dutch Operationeel Commando) (Opco) of the Royal Netherlands Army and exists as of 2006 of about 3,000 reservists. The reservists are volunteers in their spare time and are essentially part-time soldiers.
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger; KNIL) was the army of the Netherlands in its former colony of the Netherlands East Indies (also known as the Dutch East Indies, and later known as Indonesia). Along with the Royal Netherlands Navy, it comprised the Dutch armed forces in the Netherlands East Indies.
Royal Netherlands Football Association The Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) (Dutch: Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond) is the governing body of football in the Netherlands. It organises the main Dutch football leagues (Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie), the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup and the Netherlands national football team.
Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade The Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade was initially formed from approximately 1500 Dutch troops, including a small group guarding German POWs, who arrived in the UK in May 1940 following the collapse of the Netherlands. Elements of this force became the nucleus of what was originally called the “Dutch Legion.
Royal New South Wales Canine Council The Royal New South Wales Canine Council is a governing body in New South Wales, Australia which represents the interests of dog owners, breeders and fanciers. It is an affiliate of the Australian National Kennel Council (ANKC).
Royal New Zealand Air Force The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) is the air force arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. The RNZAF was formed from New Zealand components of the British Royal Air Force, becoming an independent force in 1923, although many RNZAF aircrew continued to serve in the Royal Air Force until the end of the 1940s.
Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum The Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum is primarily a museum of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, its predecessor, the New Zealand Permanent Air Force and New Zealand squadrons of the Royal Air Force. The main site is at its first base, Wigram in Christchurch, in the South Island.
Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps The Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (RNZAC) is the overall umbrella grouping of Regular Army and Territorial Force regiments equipped with armoured vehicles in the New Zealand Army. The corps was formed in 1941 as the New Zealand Armoured Corps, before being given the Royal prefix in 1947.
Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment The Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment is the main unit in the regular army of New Zealand. It was formed January 9 1947 as the New Zealand Regiment with a single infantry battalion as part of the newly created infantry corps.
Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association The Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association, often referred to as the Returned Services' Association but best known simply as the RSA, is one of the largest voluntary welfare organisations in New Zealand and one of the oldest ex-service organisations in the world.
Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals The Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or RNZSPCA is an animal protection charity based in Auckland, New Zealand. The society is a voluntary organisation which receives no government funding, created with the aims of protecting animals from cruelty and providing help to animals and owners.
Royal Norwegian Navy The Royal Norwegian Navy (often abbreviated as RNoN) is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations. As of 2006, the Navy consists of approximately 3,700 personnel (9, 450 if mobilized) and 27 vessels, including 3 frigates, 6 submarines, 8 (14) patrol boats, 3 (4) minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 1 support vessel and 2 training vessels.
Royal Norwegian Order of Merit The Royal Norwegian Order of Merit or Den Kongelige Norske Fortjenstorden was established by King Olav V of Norway in 1985. It is the newest Nordic order and is awarded to Norwegian citizens living abroad, Norwegian Foreign Service diplomats, foreign civil servants in Norway, and Norway's honorary consuls for "outstanding service in the interests of Norway".
Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand is a nonprofit group which seeks to "encourage and promote the study of numismatics and other related historical subjects." It was founded in 1931 as New Zealand Numismatic Society and adopted its current name in 1947.
Royal Oak The Royal Oak is the name given to the oak tree within which King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The tree was located in Boscobel Wood, which was part of the park of Boscobel House.
Royal Oak Mines The Royal Oak Mines Incorporated was a gold mining company, founded in 1990 by Peggy Witte in Kirkland, Washington. They held numerous gold and base metal properties in Canada, including the Giant Mine in the Northwest Territories, Pamour Mine in Ontario, Hope Brook Mine in Newfoundland, Colomac Mine in the Northwest Territories, and the Kemess Mine in British Columbia.
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE) is located on Blackford Hill in the south of the city of Edinburgh. It started as the Playfair Observatory, located on Calton Hill, and became the Royal Observatory during the visit of George IV to Scotland in 1822 (the original site is now the City Observatory).
Royal Observatory, Greenwich The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (formerly the Royal Greenwich Observatory or RGO) was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II. At this time the king also created the position of Astronomer Royal (initially filled by John Flamsteed), to serve as the director of the observatory and to "apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation.
Royal Observer Corps The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a defence warning organisation operating in the United Kingdom between 1925 and 1995. It was created to provide a system for detecting, tracking and reporting aircraft over Britain.
Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum, commonly known as the ROM (rhyming with Tom), is a major museum for world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The ROM is the fifth largest museum in North America and contains more than six million items.
Royal Opera, London The Royal Opera is London and the United Kingdom's most famous and most wealthy opera company, which, as the Covent Garden Opera Company, began in 1946. The company is based at the Royal Opera House, an opera house in Covent Garden, in central London.
Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception The Royal Military Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Faith and the Immaculate Conception was founded by Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in 1726 to provide for a means of honouring the nobility and recognizing distinguished civil military service. Its status as a Catholic Order was confirmed in a Papal Bull of 15 March, 1728 specifically comparing the Order with the Teutonic Order, which had likewise been transformed from a Crusading Order to an exclusive chivalric religious institution for the Nobility.
Royal Order of the Intare Royal Order of the Intare (Lion) is the dynastic order of the Rwandan MonarchyIt was founded by King Mutara III of Rwanda]. Currently [[King Kigeli V of Rwanda has the right to bestow the order on certain individuals that have earned the right to be awarded this prestigious award.
Royal Order of Victoria and Albert The Royal Order of Victoria and Albert was a British Royal Family Order instituted in 1862 by Queen Victoria, and enlarged on 10 October 1864, 15 November 1865, and 15 March 1880. No awards were made after the death of Queen Victoria.
Royal Ordnance Royal Ordnance plc, formed on 2nd January 1985 as a public corporation, owned the majority of what until then were the remaining United Kingdom government-owned Royal Ordnance Factories (abbreviated ROFs) which manufactured explosives, ammunition, small arms including the Lee-Enfield rifle, guns and military vehicles such as tanks.
Royal Ordnance Factory Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) was the collective name of the UK government's munitions factories in and after World War II. Until privatisation in 1987 they were the responsibility of the Ministry of Supply and later the Ministry of Defence.
Royal Orchard (VIVA) Royal Orchard is a Vivastation on York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system, north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened on September 4, 2005, on the intersection of Royal Orchard Boulevard and Yonge Street in Markham/Vaughan, Ontario.
Royal Orchid Plus Thai Airways International Royal Orchid Plus (ROP) is the first frequent flyer program established in Thailand. It is now considered Asia's leading frequent flyer program with a membership base of over two million members world-wide.
Royal Palace (Amsterdam) The Royal Palace in Amsterdam (Koninklijk Paleis te Amsterdam in Dutch) is one of three palaces in the Netherlands which is at the disposal of Queen Beatrix by Act of Parliament. It is situated in the west side of Dam Square in the centre of Amsterdam, opposite the War Memorial and next to the Nieuwe Kerk.
Royal Palace (Naples) Bourbon Kings of Naples used during their rule of the Kingdom of Naples (1730-1860): one is in Caserta, another on the Capodimonte hill overlooking Naples, and the third (now the site of the agricultural department of the University of Naples) is in Portici on the slopes of Vesuvius.
Royal Palace Museum The Royal Palace (official name "Haw Kham") in Luang Prabang, Laos was built in 1904 during the French colonial era for King Sisavang Vong and his family. The site for the palace was chosen so that official visitors to Luang Prabang could disembark from their river voyages directly below the palace and be received there.
Royal Palace of Madrid The Palacio Real de Madrid (Royal Palace of Madrid), also called Palacio de Oriente (Palace of Orient) is the official residence of the King of Spain, located in the Spanish capital of Madrid. King Juan Carlos and his family do not actually reside in this palace, instead choosing the smaller Palacio de la Zarzuela, on the outskirts of Madrid.
Royal Palace, Oslo The Royal Palace (no:Slottet) in Oslo was built in the first half of the 19th century as the Norwegian residence of Norwegian and Swedish king Charles III (Carl Johan, Charles XIV of Sweden) and is used as the official residence of the present Norwegian Monarch. The crown princely couple resides at Skaugum Manor in Asker Municipality outside of Oslo, while the three princesses of Norway live on estates in Oslo, Fredrikstad and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Royal Palace, Tonga The Royal Palace of the Kingdom of Tonga is located in the northwest of the capital, Nukualofa, close to the Pacific Ocean. The wooden Palace, which was built in 1867, is the official residence of the King of Tonga.
Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy, written during the 1920s by a proto-Rastafari preacher, Fitz Balintine Pettersburg, is of historical and religious significance to followers of the Rastafari movement. Along with The Holy Piby, it is today recognized as one of the root documents of Rastafari thought.
Royal Park Golf Club Situated in Royal Park, Melbourne, Victoria, the Royal Park Golf Club is a 9-hole golf course located only 5 km from the city. The club has the honour of being possibly the only golf course with a tram and train line running through it.
Royal Parks Constabulary The Royal Parks Constabulary (RPC) is the police force formerly responsible for the Royal Parks in London and a number of other locations in Greater London, England and Edinburgh, Scotland; it now only exists in Scotland as part of Historic Scotland.
Royal Parks of London The Royal Parks of London are lands originally owned by the monarchy of England or the United Kingdom for the recreation (mostly hunting) of the royal family. With increasing urbanisation of London, some of these were preserved as freely accessible open space and became public parks.
Royal Perth Hospital Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) is an 855-bed teaching hospital located on north eastern edge of the CBD of Perth, Western Australia. Royal Perth Hospital also has specialised rehabilitation facilities at Shenton Park.
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) is the statutory regulatory and professional body for pharmacists in England, Scotland and Wales. It has its headquarters at 1, Lambeth High Street, in the Borough of Lambeth in London.
Royal Philatelic Collection The Royal Philatelic Collection is the postage stamp collection of the British Royal Family. It is the most comprehensive collection of items related to the philately of the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth, with many unique pieces.
Royal Photographic Society The Royal Photographic Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1853 "to promote the Art and Science of Photography". It offers various levels of qualifications in photographic skills and runs an extensive programme of lectures and events throughout the United Kingdom and abroad, through local groups and special interest groups.
Royal Portbury Dock The Royal Portbury Dock is part of the Port of Bristol, in England. It is situated on the western side of the mouth of the Avon, where the river joins the Severn estuary - the Avonmouth Docks are on the opposite side of the Avon, within Avonmouth.
Royal Portrush Golf Club Royal Portrush Golf Club in County Antrim, Northern Ireland is the only golf club outside of Great Britain which has hosted The Open Championship, the oldest of golf's major championships. It is considered a highly testing course, with a particularly scenic setting.
Royal Postgraduate Medical School The Royal Postgraduate Medical School was an independent medical school in England. In 1988, the school merged with the Institute of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and in 1997 became part of the Imperial College School of Medicine.
Royal Pragmatic on Marriage The Royal Pragmatic on Marriage (in Spanish, Real Pragmática) was a form of legislation introduced by the Spanish Crown in its American colonies in order to control the institution of marriage, by requiring children to obtain permission from their parents before marrying, and allowing disinheritance in case of disobedience. The first Royal Pragmatic was passed on 23 March 1776.
Royal Prerogative The Royal Prerogative is a body of customary authority, privilege, and immunity, recognised in common law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy as belonging to the Crown alone. It is the means by which some of the executive powers of government are possessed by and vested in a monarch with regard to the process of governance of their state are carried out.
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (abbreviated RPAH or RPA, and sometimes shortened to PA Hospital) is a major hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Missenden Road in Camperdown. It is a teaching hospital of the Central Clinical School of the University of Sydney and is situated in proximity to the Blackburn Building of the university's main campus, one of the buildings that house the Faculty of Medicine.
Royal Princess Royal Princess is a cruise ship currently operating as Minerva II for Swan Hellenic. She is also the last remianing ship in the Swan Hellenic fleet, and with the transfer, Swan Hellenic Cruises will cease to exist.
Royal Proclamation of 1763 The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763 by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Britain's vast new North American empire, and to stabilize relations with North American Indians through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier.
Royal Prussia Royal Prussia (; ) was a province of the Kingdom of Poland and then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 to 1772. Royal Prussia included Eastern Pomerania, Chełmno Land (Kulmerland), Malbork Voivodeship (Marienburg), Gdańsk (Danzig), Toruń (Thorn), and Elbląg (Elbing).
Royal Public Dispensary of Edinburgh Royal Public Dispensary of Edinburgh is regarded as the first (free) hospital in Scotland. The facility was founded in 1776 by noted physician Andrew Duncan I (1744-1828), who provided the impoverished in the city with free medical advice.
Royal Radar Establishment The Royal Radar Establishment, or RRE, formerly the Telecommunications Research Establishment, or TRE, moved to Malvern, Worcestershire, England from Swanage and Christchurch, Dorset in 1942 after it was decided it was too vulnerable to German commando raids.
Royal Ranger Regiment The Royal Ranger Regiment (Malay: Rejimen Renjer DiRaja; RRD) is an infantry regiment of the Malaysian Army. Although it is second in seniority to the Royal Malay Regiment (Rejimen Askar Melayu DiRaja; RAMD), the RRD can trace its origins back to the mid 19th century and the establishment of The Sarawak Rangers, the peacekeeping force in the Sarawak region.
Royal Rangers Royal Rangers is a worldwide movement of the Assemblies of God designed to provide young people with activities while providing them with religious instruction. A camping theme is at the heart of most activities, along with a merit award system whereby Royal Rangers must demonstrate specific knowledge and abilities.
Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery The Royal New Zealand Artillery forms the artillery section of the New Zealand Army. In its current form it was founded in 1947 with the amalgamation of the regular and volunteer units of artillery in New Zealand.
Royal Rhodesian Air Force The former name of the Rhodesian Air Force. Formed initially in 1935 under the name Rhodesian Regiment Air Unit as a territorial unit, the first regular servicemen with the unit went to Britain for ground crew training in 1936.
Royal Rife Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 - August 11, 1971) became known for his unsubstantiated claim of finding a 100% effective cure for terminal cancer by means of his "beam ray" device, which was supposed to work by methods which conflict with contemporary and subsequent scientific theories. Information pertaining to the construction of some of Rife's original instruments is lacking.
Royal Road The Persian Royal Road was an ancient highway built by the Persian king Darius I of Achaemenid Empire in the 5th Century BC. Darius built the road to facilitate rapid communication throughout his very large empire from Susa to Sardis.
Royal Roads Military College Royal Roads Military College (RRMC) was a Canadian military college (1940 to 1995) located in Hatley Park, near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The facility is currently being used as the campus for Royal Roads University, a public university that offers applied and professional programs.
Royal Roads University Royal Roads University (RRU) is a public university located in Colwood, a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is the only public university in Canada devoted exclusively to offering applied and professional programs, at both the Undergraduate and Graduate degree level.
Royal Rumble The Royal Rumble is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced every January by World Wrestling Entertainment. The event's main featured match is a battle royal-type match, also titled the Royal Rumble.
Royal Rumble (1988) Royal Rumble 1988 was the first annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 24, 1988 in the Copps Coliseum located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Royal Rumble (1989) Royal Rumble 1989 was the second annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling event from the World Wrestling Federation, and the first one to be held on pay-per-view. It took place on January 15, 1989 from The Summit in Houston, Texas.
Royal Rumble (1992) Royal Rumble 1992 was the fifth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 19, 1992 in the Knickerbocker Arena located in Albany, New York.
Royal Rumble (1993) Royal Rumble 1993 was the sixth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 24, 1993 from the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California.
Royal Rumble (1994) Royal Rumble 1994 was the seventh annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 22, 1994 in the Providence Civic Center located in Providence, Rhode Island.
Royal Rumble (1995) Royal Rumble 1995 was the eighth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 22, 1995 in the USF Sun Dome located in Tampa, Florida.
Royal Rumble (1996) Royal Rumble 1996 was the ninth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 21, 1996 from the Selland Arena in Fresno, California.
Royal Mile The Royal Mile is the popular name for the succession of streets which form the main thoroughfare of Edinburgh's Old Town. As the name suggests, it was equivalent to a Scottish mile between the two foci of royal history in Scotland, from Edinburgh Castle at the top of the Castle Rock down to the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Royal Military Academy The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Signals and other technical corps.
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is the British Army officer initial training centre. Sandhurst is prestigious and has had many famous alumni including Sir Winston Churchill and, more recently, Prince Harry of Wales, Idi Amin, and Prince William of Wales.
Royal Military College (Malaysia) The Royal Military College (also known as RMC and sometimes dubbed the "the Sandhurst of Malaysia" and "The Synthesis of Eton-Sandhurst") is a premier boarding school in Malaysia. The sprawling RMC campus covers an area of 1200 acres amongst the Green Hills near the town of Sungei Besi (about 10 miles from Kuala Lumpur) with a magnificent view of the Mines Resort and the 1998 Commonwealth Games Bukit Jalil Stadium.
Royal Military Police The Royal Military Police (RMP) is the branch of the British Army responsible for the policing of service personnel and providing a military police presence on service property, operations and exercises.Ministry of Defence, Royal Military Police website, (accessed 15 Nov 06) Its members are generally known as Redcaps because they wear red-topped peaked caps or red berets.
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) (R MON RE(M)) is the most senior regiment in the British Army, having given continuous loyal service to the crown since 1539 and is now part of the reserve forces of the Territorial Army.
Royal Montreal Golf Club The Royal Montreal Golf Club was founded November 4, 1873 making it the oldest golf club in North America. In that year, a small group of eight gentlemen sat in a dockside office and formed the Montreal Golf Club.
Royal Moroccan Air Force The Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) (Arabic: القŮات الجŮŮŠŘ© الملŮŮŠŘ© المغربية ; transliterated: al-Qoat al-Jaoiyah al-Malakiyah al-Maghribiyah) is the official air force of Morocco. The Royal Moroccan Air Force flies a variety of Western-built airplanes.
Royal Munster Fusiliers (New Army) The Royal Munster Fusiliers had been a relatively small peacetime regiment of the British Army at the outbreak of War in August 1914. The need for considerable expansion of the British Army resulted in the formation of the First New Army under Lord Kitchener, with a planned period of service of at least three years.
Royal Museum for Central Africa The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) is an ethnographical and natural history museum in Tervuren in the suburbs of Brussels, Belgium. It was first built to show off King Leopold II's Congo Free State for the 1897 World Exhibition.
Royal National Institute of the Blind The Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) is a charity based in London, England, set up by Thomas Rhodes Armitage to lobby for and help people who are blind or partially sighted. Its patron is the Queen.
Royal National Lifeboat Institution The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a charity based in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland dedicated to saving lives at sea around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. It is largely a volunteer organisation and was founded on 4 March 1824 as the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, adopting the present name in 1854.
Royal National Mod The Royal National Mod, (), is the annual national mod, a festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture. It has been held most years in October since 1892, when it was first held in Oban with 10 competitors on a Saturday afternoon.
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) provides a comprehensive range of neuro-musculoskeletal health care, ranging from the most acute spinal injury or complex bone tumour to orthopaedic medicine and specialist rehabilitation for chronic back pain sufferers. This broad range of neuro-musculoskeletal services is unique within the NHS.
Royal National Theatre The Royal National Theatre is a theatre company which operates from a building of the same name on the South Bank in London, England immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge. The National Theatre's building was designed by architect Sir Denys Lasdun and opened in 1976.
Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society The Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society (RNARS) is a specialised group or club for Amateur Radio operators who have a link with maritime employment, such as members of a navy, merchant marine, or similar employment. As such, RNARS has become a [facto|de facto] international group for such people.
Royal Naval Auxiliary Service The Royal Naval Auxiliary Service (RNXS) was formed in 1962 from the Royal Naval Minewatching Service (RNMWS) in response to the nuclear threat to British ports. The service was disbanded on 31 March 1994 due to defence cuts.
Royal Naval College, Greenwich The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was a Royal Navy training establishment between 1873 and 1998, in the centre of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site in London. It provided a number of courses for naval officers including being home to the Royal Navy's staff college, the staff course providing advanced training for mid-ranking officers.
Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda HMD Bermuda (Her/His Majesty's Dockyard, Bermuda) was the principal base of the Royal Navy in the Western Atlantic between American independence and the Cold War. Bermuda had occupied a useful position astride the homeward leg taken by many European vessels from the New World since before its settlement by England in 1609.
Royal Navy The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore the Senior Service). From the early 18th century to the middle of the 20th century, it was the largest and most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant power of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath The Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, (RNCF), was set up at Holton Heath, Dorset in World War I to manufacture Cordite for the Royal Navy. It was reactivated in World War II to manufacture gun propellants for the Admiralty and its output was supplemented by the Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent.
Royal Navy Cricket Club The Royal Navy Cricket Club is a cricket team representing the British Royal Navy and based at Portsmouth, Hampshire. The club was formed in 1863, although cricket is recorded as having been played by seamen since at least the 17th century.
Royal Navy Dockyard Dockyards of the Royal Navy are harbours where either commissioned ships are based, or where ships are overhauled and refitted. Historically, the RN maintained a string of dockyards around the world, although few are now operating today.
Royal Navy in the 21st century At the beginning of the 1990s, the Royal Navy was a force designed for the Cold War - with its three ASW aircraft carriers and a force of small, though numerous, frigates and destroyers, its main purpose was to search for and destroy Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic. However, the Falklands War (1982) proved a need for the Royal Navy to maintain a bluewater capability.
Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent The Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent, Monmouthshire, (later RAF Caerwent) UK was associated with the manufacture or storage of ammunition components from 1939 to 1993. It is now used for a variety of military and civil purposes, including field exercises, car rallying, storage and breakdown of railway vehicles, and nature preservation.
Royal Navy surface fleet The Surface Fleet is the name given to the collection of surface vessels (as opposed to submarines or aircraft) of the British Royal Navy. As of 2002, it currently consists of two flotillas based at Portsmouth and Devonport, both on the south coast of England.
Royal Navy Submarine Museum Museum at Gosport tracing the international history of Submarine development from the age of Alexander the Great to the present day and the history of the Submarine Service from the tiny Holland 1 to the nuclear powered Vanguard class submarine - the Navy's present day peacekeepers. It is sited here due to HMS Dolphin shore-establishment.
Royal Navy Submarine Service The Royal Navy Submarine Service - sometimes known as the "Silent Service", on account of a submarine being required to operate quietly in order to remain undetected by enemy SONAR (or ASDIC as it was known in the RN pre-1948) - is the collective name given to the submarine element of the Royal Navy. The service consists of 10 Attack submarines (SSNs), of the Swiftsure and Trafalgar class, and four ballistic missile submarines(SSBN), of the Vanguard class.
Royal Netherlands Air Force The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), Dutch Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu), is the aviation branch of the Netherlands defence forces. Its ancestor, the Luchtvaartafdeling of the Dutch Army was founded on July 1, 1913, and it originally consisted of just 4 pilots.
Royal Netherlands Army The Royal Netherlands Army (Koninklijke Landmacht) is the land forces element of the military of the Netherlands. The core fighting element of the army is divided into three separate brigades: two mechanised and one airmobile.
Royal Netherlands Army reserve The Royal Dutch Army National Reserve (in Dutch corps Nationale Reserve, abbreviated Natres) is part of the Operational Commando (Dutch Operationeel Commando) (Opco) of the Royal Netherlands Army and exists as of 2006 of about 3,000 reservists. The reservists are volunteers in their spare time and are essentially part-time soldiers.
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger; KNIL) was the army of the Netherlands in its former colony of the Netherlands East Indies (also known as the Dutch East Indies, and later known as Indonesia). Along with the Royal Netherlands Navy, it comprised the Dutch armed forces in the Netherlands East Indies.
Royal Netherlands Football Association The Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) (Dutch: Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond) is the governing body of football in the Netherlands. It organises the main Dutch football leagues (Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie), the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup and the Netherlands national football team.
Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade The Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade was initially formed from approximately 1500 Dutch troops, including a small group guarding German POWs, who arrived in the UK in May 1940 following the collapse of the Netherlands. Elements of this force became the nucleus of what was originally called the “Dutch Legion.
Royal New South Wales Canine Council The Royal New South Wales Canine Council is a governing body in New South Wales, Australia which represents the interests of dog owners, breeders and fanciers. It is an affiliate of the Australian National Kennel Council (ANKC).
Royal New Zealand Air Force The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) is the air force arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. The RNZAF was formed from New Zealand components of the British Royal Air Force, becoming an independent force in 1923, although many RNZAF aircrew continued to serve in the Royal Air Force until the end of the 1940s.
Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum The Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum is primarily a museum of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, its predecessor, the New Zealand Permanent Air Force and New Zealand squadrons of the Royal Air Force. The main site is at its first base, Wigram in Christchurch, in the South Island.
Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps The Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (RNZAC) is the overall umbrella grouping of Regular Army and Territorial Force regiments equipped with armoured vehicles in the New Zealand Army. The corps was formed in 1941 as the New Zealand Armoured Corps, before being given the Royal prefix in 1947.
Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment The Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment is the main unit in the regular army of New Zealand. It was formed January 9 1947 as the New Zealand Regiment with a single infantry battalion as part of the newly created infantry corps.
Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association The Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association, often referred to as the Returned Services' Association but best known simply as the RSA, is one of the largest voluntary welfare organisations in New Zealand and one of the oldest ex-service organisations in the world.
Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals The Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or RNZSPCA is an animal protection charity based in Auckland, New Zealand. The society is a voluntary organisation which receives no government funding, created with the aims of protecting animals from cruelty and providing help to animals and owners.
Royal Norwegian Navy The Royal Norwegian Navy (often abbreviated as RNoN) is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations. As of 2006, the Navy consists of approximately 3,700 personnel (9, 450 if mobilized) and 27 vessels, including 3 frigates, 6 submarines, 8 (14) patrol boats, 3 (4) minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 1 support vessel and 2 training vessels.
Royal Norwegian Order of Merit The Royal Norwegian Order of Merit or Den Kongelige Norske Fortjenstorden was established by King Olav V of Norway in 1985. It is the newest Nordic order and is awarded to Norwegian citizens living abroad, Norwegian Foreign Service diplomats, foreign civil servants in Norway, and Norway's honorary consuls for "outstanding service in the interests of Norway".
Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand is a nonprofit group which seeks to "encourage and promote the study of numismatics and other related historical subjects." It was founded in 1931 as New Zealand Numismatic Society and adopted its current name in 1947.
Royal Oak The Royal Oak is the name given to the oak tree within which King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The tree was located in Boscobel Wood, which was part of the park of Boscobel House.
Royal Oak Mines The Royal Oak Mines Incorporated was a gold mining company, founded in 1990 by Peggy Witte in Kirkland, Washington. They held numerous gold and base metal properties in Canada, including the Giant Mine in the Northwest Territories, Pamour Mine in Ontario, Hope Brook Mine in Newfoundland, Colomac Mine in the Northwest Territories, and the Kemess Mine in British Columbia.
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE) is located on Blackford Hill in the south of the city of Edinburgh. It started as the Playfair Observatory, located on Calton Hill, and became the Royal Observatory during the visit of George IV to Scotland in 1822 (the original site is now the City Observatory).
Royal Observatory, Greenwich The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (formerly the Royal Greenwich Observatory or RGO) was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II. At this time the king also created the position of Astronomer Royal (initially filled by John Flamsteed), to serve as the director of the observatory and to "apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation.
Royal Observer Corps The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a defence warning organisation operating in the United Kingdom between 1925 and 1995. It was created to provide a system for detecting, tracking and reporting aircraft over Britain.
Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum, commonly known as the ROM (rhyming with Tom), is a major museum for world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The ROM is the fifth largest museum in North America and contains more than six million items.
Royal Opera, London The Royal Opera is London and the United Kingdom's most famous and most wealthy opera company, which, as the Covent Garden Opera Company, began in 1946. The company is based at the Royal Opera House, an opera house in Covent Garden, in central London.
Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception The Royal Military Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Faith and the Immaculate Conception was founded by Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in 1726 to provide for a means of honouring the nobility and recognizing distinguished civil military service. Its status as a Catholic Order was confirmed in a Papal Bull of 15 March, 1728 specifically comparing the Order with the Teutonic Order, which had likewise been transformed from a Crusading Order to an exclusive chivalric religious institution for the Nobility.
Royal Order of the Intare Royal Order of the Intare (Lion) is the dynastic order of the Rwandan MonarchyIt was founded by King Mutara III of Rwanda]. Currently [[King Kigeli V of Rwanda has the right to bestow the order on certain individuals that have earned the right to be awarded this prestigious award.
Royal Order of Victoria and Albert The Royal Order of Victoria and Albert was a British Royal Family Order instituted in 1862 by Queen Victoria, and enlarged on 10 October 1864, 15 November 1865, and 15 March 1880. No awards were made after the death of Queen Victoria.
Royal Ordnance Royal Ordnance plc, formed on 2nd January 1985 as a public corporation, owned the majority of what until then were the remaining United Kingdom government-owned Royal Ordnance Factories (abbreviated ROFs) which manufactured explosives, ammunition, small arms including the Lee-Enfield rifle, guns and military vehicles such as tanks.
Royal Ordnance Factory Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) was the collective name of the UK government's munitions factories in and after World War II. Until privatisation in 1987 they were the responsibility of the Ministry of Supply and later the Ministry of Defence.
Royal Orchard (VIVA) Royal Orchard is a Vivastation on York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system, north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened on September 4, 2005, on the intersection of Royal Orchard Boulevard and Yonge Street in Markham/Vaughan, Ontario.
Royal Orchid Plus Thai Airways International Royal Orchid Plus (ROP) is the first frequent flyer program established in Thailand. It is now considered Asia's leading frequent flyer program with a membership base of over two million members world-wide.
Royal Palace (Amsterdam) The Royal Palace in Amsterdam (Koninklijk Paleis te Amsterdam in Dutch) is one of three palaces in the Netherlands which is at the disposal of Queen Beatrix by Act of Parliament. It is situated in the west side of Dam Square in the centre of Amsterdam, opposite the War Memorial and next to the Nieuwe Kerk.
Royal Palace (Naples) Bourbon Kings of Naples used during their rule of the Kingdom of Naples (1730-1860): one is in Caserta, another on the Capodimonte hill overlooking Naples, and the third (now the site of the agricultural department of the University of Naples) is in Portici on the slopes of Vesuvius.
Royal Palace Museum The Royal Palace (official name "Haw Kham") in Luang Prabang, Laos was built in 1904 during the French colonial era for King Sisavang Vong and his family. The site for the palace was chosen so that official visitors to Luang Prabang could disembark from their river voyages directly below the palace and be received there.
Royal Palace of Madrid The Palacio Real de Madrid (Royal Palace of Madrid), also called Palacio de Oriente (Palace of Orient) is the official residence of the King of Spain, located in the Spanish capital of Madrid. King Juan Carlos and his family do not actually reside in this palace, instead choosing the smaller Palacio de la Zarzuela, on the outskirts of Madrid.
Royal Palace, Oslo The Royal Palace (no:Slottet) in Oslo was built in the first half of the 19th century as the Norwegian residence of Norwegian and Swedish king Charles III (Carl Johan, Charles XIV of Sweden) and is used as the official residence of the present Norwegian Monarch. The crown princely couple resides at Skaugum Manor in Asker Municipality outside of Oslo, while the three princesses of Norway live on estates in Oslo, Fredrikstad and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Royal Palace, Tonga The Royal Palace of the Kingdom of Tonga is located in the northwest of the capital, Nukualofa, close to the Pacific Ocean. The wooden Palace, which was built in 1867, is the official residence of the King of Tonga.
Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy, written during the 1920s by a proto-Rastafari preacher, Fitz Balintine Pettersburg, is of historical and religious significance to followers of the Rastafari movement. Along with The Holy Piby, it is today recognized as one of the root documents of Rastafari thought.
Royal Park Golf Club Situated in Royal Park, Melbourne, Victoria, the Royal Park Golf Club is a 9-hole golf course located only 5 km from the city. The club has the honour of being possibly the only golf course with a tram and train line running through it.
Royal Parks Constabulary The Royal Parks Constabulary (RPC) is the police force formerly responsible for the Royal Parks in London and a number of other locations in Greater London, England and Edinburgh, Scotland; it now only exists in Scotland as part of Historic Scotland.
Royal Parks of London The Royal Parks of London are lands originally owned by the monarchy of England or the United Kingdom for the recreation (mostly hunting) of the royal family. With increasing urbanisation of London, some of these were preserved as freely accessible open space and became public parks.
Royal Perth Hospital Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) is an 855-bed teaching hospital located on north eastern edge of the CBD of Perth, Western Australia. Royal Perth Hospital also has specialised rehabilitation facilities at Shenton Park.
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) is the statutory regulatory and professional body for pharmacists in England, Scotland and Wales. It has its headquarters at 1, Lambeth High Street, in the Borough of Lambeth in London.
Royal Philatelic Collection The Royal Philatelic Collection is the postage stamp collection of the British Royal Family. It is the most comprehensive collection of items related to the philately of the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth, with many unique pieces.
Royal Photographic Society The Royal Photographic Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1853 "to promote the Art and Science of Photography". It offers various levels of qualifications in photographic skills and runs an extensive programme of lectures and events throughout the United Kingdom and abroad, through local groups and special interest groups.
Royal Portbury Dock The Royal Portbury Dock is part of the Port of Bristol, in England. It is situated on the western side of the mouth of the Avon, where the river joins the Severn estuary - the Avonmouth Docks are on the opposite side of the Avon, within Avonmouth.
Royal Portrush Golf Club Royal Portrush Golf Club in County Antrim, Northern Ireland is the only golf club outside of Great Britain which has hosted The Open Championship, the oldest of golf's major championships. It is considered a highly testing course, with a particularly scenic setting.
Royal Postgraduate Medical School The Royal Postgraduate Medical School was an independent medical school in England. In 1988, the school merged with the Institute of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and in 1997 became part of the Imperial College School of Medicine.
Royal Pragmatic on Marriage The Royal Pragmatic on Marriage (in Spanish, Real Pragmática) was a form of legislation introduced by the Spanish Crown in its American colonies in order to control the institution of marriage, by requiring children to obtain permission from their parents before marrying, and allowing disinheritance in case of disobedience. The first Royal Pragmatic was passed on 23 March 1776.
Royal Prerogative The Royal Prerogative is a body of customary authority, privilege, and immunity, recognised in common law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy as belonging to the Crown alone. It is the means by which some of the executive powers of government are possessed by and vested in a monarch with regard to the process of governance of their state are carried out.
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (abbreviated RPAH or RPA, and sometimes shortened to PA Hospital) is a major hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Missenden Road in Camperdown. It is a teaching hospital of the Central Clinical School of the University of Sydney and is situated in proximity to the Blackburn Building of the university's main campus, one of the buildings that house the Faculty of Medicine.
Royal Princess Royal Princess is a cruise ship currently operating as Minerva II for Swan Hellenic. She is also the last remianing ship in the Swan Hellenic fleet, and with the transfer, Swan Hellenic Cruises will cease to exist.
Royal Proclamation of 1763 The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763 by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Britain's vast new North American empire, and to stabilize relations with North American Indians through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier.
Royal Prussia Royal Prussia (; ) was a province of the Kingdom of Poland and then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 to 1772. Royal Prussia included Eastern Pomerania, Chełmno Land (Kulmerland), Malbork Voivodeship (Marienburg), Gdańsk (Danzig), Toruń (Thorn), and Elbląg (Elbing).
Royal Public Dispensary of Edinburgh Royal Public Dispensary of Edinburgh is regarded as the first (free) hospital in Scotland. The facility was founded in 1776 by noted physician Andrew Duncan I (1744-1828), who provided the impoverished in the city with free medical advice.
Royal Radar Establishment The Royal Radar Establishment, or RRE, formerly the Telecommunications Research Establishment, or TRE, moved to Malvern, Worcestershire, England from Swanage and Christchurch, Dorset in 1942 after it was decided it was too vulnerable to German commando raids.
Royal Ranger Regiment The Royal Ranger Regiment (Malay: Rejimen Renjer DiRaja; RRD) is an infantry regiment of the Malaysian Army. Although it is second in seniority to the Royal Malay Regiment (Rejimen Askar Melayu DiRaja; RAMD), the RRD can trace its origins back to the mid 19th century and the establishment of The Sarawak Rangers, the peacekeeping force in the Sarawak region.
Royal Rangers Royal Rangers is a worldwide movement of the Assemblies of God designed to provide young people with activities while providing them with religious instruction. A camping theme is at the heart of most activities, along with a merit award system whereby Royal Rangers must demonstrate specific knowledge and abilities.
Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery The Royal New Zealand Artillery forms the artillery section of the New Zealand Army. In its current form it was founded in 1947 with the amalgamation of the regular and volunteer units of artillery in New Zealand.
Royal Rhodesian Air Force The former name of the Rhodesian Air Force. Formed initially in 1935 under the name Rhodesian Regiment Air Unit as a territorial unit, the first regular servicemen with the unit went to Britain for ground crew training in 1936.
Royal Rife Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 - August 11, 1971) became known for his unsubstantiated claim of finding a 100% effective cure for terminal cancer by means of his "beam ray" device, which was supposed to work by methods which conflict with contemporary and subsequent scientific theories. Information pertaining to the construction of some of Rife's original instruments is lacking.
Royal Road The Persian Royal Road was an ancient highway built by the Persian king Darius I of Achaemenid Empire in the 5th Century BC. Darius built the road to facilitate rapid communication throughout his very large empire from Susa to Sardis.
Royal Roads Military College Royal Roads Military College (RRMC) was a Canadian military college (1940 to 1995) located in Hatley Park, near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The facility is currently being used as the campus for Royal Roads University, a public university that offers applied and professional programs.
Royal Roads University Royal Roads University (RRU) is a public university located in Colwood, a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is the only public university in Canada devoted exclusively to offering applied and professional programs, at both the Undergraduate and Graduate degree level.
Royal Rumble The Royal Rumble is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced every January by World Wrestling Entertainment. The event's main featured match is a battle royal-type match, also titled the Royal Rumble.
Royal Rumble (1988) Royal Rumble 1988 was the first annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 24, 1988 in the Copps Coliseum located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Royal Rumble (1989) Royal Rumble 1989 was the second annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling event from the World Wrestling Federation, and the first one to be held on pay-per-view. It took place on January 15, 1989 from The Summit in Houston, Texas.
Royal Rumble (1992) Royal Rumble 1992 was the fifth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 19, 1992 in the Knickerbocker Arena located in Albany, New York.
Royal Rumble (1993) Royal Rumble 1993 was the sixth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 24, 1993 from the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California.
Royal Rumble (1994) Royal Rumble 1994 was the seventh annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 22, 1994 in the Providence Civic Center located in Providence, Rhode Island.
Royal Rumble (1995) Royal Rumble 1995 was the eighth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 22, 1995 in the USF Sun Dome located in Tampa, Florida.
Royal Rumble (1996) Royal Rumble 1996 was the ninth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 21, 1996 from the Selland Arena in Fresno, California.
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