Definition of "royal family" []

• The family of the ruling sovereign of a country or state. (noun)

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• "For the powerful Saudi royal family and its Gulf partners, any setbacks by Bahrain's 200-year-old ruling Al Khalifa dynasty is considered a threat to all monarchs and sheiks in the Gulf."
• "Living on the edge of town was a poor man named Abdalonymus or in Phoenician, Abd-elonim, “servant of the gods” who was distantly related to the royal family of Sidon."
• "Caria had fallen under Persian control in the late sixth century as had the rest of Asia Minor, but the royal family continued to rule in the name of the Great King."