princess royal

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   the eldest daughter of a British sovereign

   Broaderprincess

Questions about princess royal

What does princess royal mean?

princess royal means "the eldest daughter of a British sovereign".

Is princess royal a common word?

princess royal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.