blood royal

noun

all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin:
a prince of the blood royal.

First recorded in 1595–1605

The lords of the Court, on the contrary, and the princes of the blood royal, appeared very indifferent to it.

Certainly he was possessed by no extravagant notions of the divinity of blood-royal.

Certain of the leaders indeed, and notably the princes of the blood royal, knew no more than she.

Indeed, after the death of Akbar, three princes of the blood royal were solemnly baptized.

And the king sent Lysias, one of the blood royal, with a great army to go into the land of Juda and destroy it.

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