Royals may refer to:
Entertainment
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The Royals (band)
The Royals were a Jamaican roots reggae vocal group formed in 1964 by Roy Cousins.Larkin, Colin:"The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae", 1998, Virgin Books, They continued to record, with a varying line-up until the mid-1980s.
History
The earliest l ...
, a Jamaican reggae vocal group
* The Royals, original name of
The Midnighters
The Midnighters were an American vocal group from Detroit, Michigan. They were an influential group in the 1950s and early 1960s, with many R&B hit records. They were also notable for launching the career of lead singer Hank Ballard and the wo ...
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"Royals" (Lorde song), 2013
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"Royals" (Paul Rey song), 2023
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''The Royals'' (TV series), a 2015 E! network drama series
* ''The Royals'', a 1997 book by
Kitty Kelley
Katherine Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is an American journalist and author of best-selling unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, a ...
about the British royal family
* ''Royals'', a 2017 Marvel Comics series about the
Inhumans
The Inhumans are a fictional superhuman race of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The comic book series has usually focused more specifically on the adventures of the Inhuman Royal Family, and many peopl ...
* ''Royals'', a book series by
Rachel Hawkins
Rachel Valerie Hawkins (; born 31 January 1992) is a Scottish former cricketer who played as an all-rounder, batting right-handed and bowling right-arm medium. She played for Scotland between 2012 and 2019, including appearing in 16 Twenty20 In ...
** ''Royals'', the original publication title of ''Prince Charming'', a 2018 novel in the series
Sports teams
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Kansas City Royals
The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expa ...
, a Major League Baseball team
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Burlington Royals
The Burlington Royals were a minor league baseball team in Burlington, North Carolina, United States. They were a Rookie-level team in the Appalachian League. The team was affiliated with the Cleveland Indians from 1986 to 2006 as the Burlington I ...
, a minor league baseball farm team of the Kansas City Royals
** Omaha Royals, former name of the
Omaha Storm Chasers
The Omaha Storm Chasers are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals. They are located in Papillion, Nebraska, a suburb southwest of Omaha, and play their home games at Wer ...
, a minor league baseball farm team of the Kansas City Royals
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Barbados Royals
The Barbados Royals (previously known as the Barbados Tridents) are the representative franchise cricket team of Barbados in the Caribbean Premier League. They are one of the six teams specifically created in 2013 for the inaugural season of t ...
, a team in the Caribbean Premier League
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Barbados Royals (WCPL), a team in the Women's Caribbean Premier League
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Cincinnati Royals
The Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The Kings compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Western Conference Pacific Division. The Kings are the oldest ...
, a basketball team now known as the Sacramento Kings of the NBA
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Cornwall Royals
The Cornwall Royals were a junior ice hockey team based in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. The team played in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 1969 to 1981, and the Ontario Hockey League from 1981 to 1992. This team shared its name with ...
, a defunct Canadian junior ice hockey team
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East Perth Football Club
The East Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Royals, is an Australian rules football club based in Leederville, Western Australia, current playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Formed in 1902 as the Union Football Club, the cl ...
, an Australian rules football club nicknamed the Royals
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New Westminster Royals
The New Westminster Royals was the name of several professional ice hockey teams based in New Westminster, British Columbia, first established in 1911 for the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA). Though nominally based in New Westminster, ...
, the name of several hockey teams based in New Westminster, British Columbia
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Rajasthan Royals
Rajasthan Royals (often abbreviated as RR) are a franchise cricket team based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, that plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Founded in 2008 as one of the initial eight IPL franchises, the team is based at the Sawai ...
, an Indian Premier League cricket franchise
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Reading F.C.
Reading Football Club ( ) is a professional football club based in Reading, Berkshire, England. The team play in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. The club is managed by Paul Ince.
Reading are nicknamed ...
, a football team in the Football League Championship
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Reading Royals
The Reading Royals are a professional ice hockey team that currently plays in the ECHL. The team participates in the North Division of the ECHL's Eastern Conference. The Royals play their home games at the Santander Arena located in downtown Re ...
, an ECHL ice hockey team based in Reading, Pennsylvania
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Royal AM F.C.
Royal AM (also known as "Thwihli Thwahla") is a South African football club based in Durban, KwaZulu Natal that plays in the PSL. They play in DSTV Premiership after purchasing a license from Bloemfontein Celtic in August 2021 by Durban busines ...
, a South African soccer team
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Royals Football Club
Royals Football Club or Royals Football and Sporting Club, is an Australian rules football club located in Albany, Western Australia playing in the Great Southern Football League (Western Australia).
The home ground is called Centennial Oval ...
, an Australian rules football club located in Albany, Western Australia
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Victoria Royals
The Victoria Royals are a Canadian major junior ice hockey team currently members of the B.C. Division of the Western Conference in the Western Hockey League (WHL). The team began play during the 2011–12 season after the League announced the ...
, a Western Hockey League team
* Busan Daewoo Royals, former name of South Korean football club
Busan IPark
Busan IPark ( ko, 부산 아이파크) is a South Korean professional football club based in Busan that competes in K League 2, the second tier of the South Korean football pyramid. Its current home ground is Busan Gudeok Stadium.
The club was ...
* A nickname for various sports teams from
County Meath
County Meath (; gle, Contae na Mí or simply ) is a county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. It is bordered by Dublin to the southeast, Louth to the northeast, Kildare to the south, Offaly to the ...
, Ireland
Other uses
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Royal family
A royal family is the immediate family of kings/queens, emirs/emiras, sultans/ sultanas, or raja/ rani and sometimes their extended family. The term imperial family appropriately describes the family of an emperor or empress, and the term p ...
, including a list of royal families
See also
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Royal (disambiguation)
Royal may refer to:
People
* Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name
* A member of a royal family
Places United States
* Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
* Royal, Illinois, a village
* Royal, Iowa, a ...
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Royale (disambiguation)
Royale may refer to:
Places
* Île Royale, an island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of French Guiana
* Île Royale, a former name of Cape Breton Island, Canada
* Isle Royale, an island in Lake Superior
* Rue Royale, several streets
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