Blood-royal
all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin:
a prince of the blood royal.
Historical Examples
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff
Art in England Dutton Cook
The Wits and Beaux of Society Grace & Philip Wharton
The Wizard H. Rider Haggard
Maria Antoinette John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The Expositor’s Bible F. W. Farrar
Chaucer for Children Mrs. H. R. Haweis
Jack Sheppard, Vol. III (of III) W. Harrison Ainsworth
Summer Cruising in the South Seas Charles Warren Stoddard
The Antiquary, Complete Sir Walter Scott
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