What does royalty mean?
Word: Royalty
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Royalty means kings, queens and the members of their families. It can also mean a share of the money from the sales of a book or song, paid to the person who created it.
How do you spell royalty?
Syllables: roy - al - ty
Tricky part: The vowel sound after the r is the oy of boy, and some students write it with oi, as in coin.
Watch out for: roialty, royality, roylty
Memory tip: Put a crown on the word boy and you have the right spelling of the oy sound here.
Royalty in a sentence
Example 1: Crowds gathered outside the palace gates to catch a glimpse of royalty.
Example 2: Windsor Castle has been home to British royalty for over 900 years.
Example 3: The author uses her royalties to run a small library in her village.
Fun Fact
Some palaces where royalty once lived are now hotels, such as the Lake Palace in Udaipur and the Rambagh Palace in Jaipur.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
royal____
a) tey
b) tie
c) ty
d) tee
Show answer
c) ty. The ending is the same short ty heard at the end of safety and plenty.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tlyroay
a) regally
b) rotary
c) royalty
d) royally
Show answer
c) royalty. Royally and regally have two l's and no t, and rotary has no l at all.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) royalty
b) sceptor
c) kingdum
d) corronation
Show answer
a) royalty. Sceptre ends in tre in British English, coronation has one r at the start, and kingdom ends in dom.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The museum at the old palace shows clothes once worn by royalty and a silver chariot with beatiful carvings.
a) royalty
b) museum
c) carvings
d) beatiful
Show answer
d) beatiful. Beautiful keeps the eau of beauty, so a u comes after the ea.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these people belongs to royalty?
a) a potter
b) a princess
c) a postwoman
d) a pilot
Show answer
b) a princess
2. A songwriter's royalties usually go up when ____.
a) the concert hall is closed
b) the band buys a new van
c) more people buy the song
d) the studio is painted blue
Show answer
c) more people buy the song
