English
Pronoun
infl|en|pronoun|head=your|Your highness|Highness
- formal A title of respect used to address a prince or princess.
#* 1818, The Quarterly Review, J. Murray, The Congo Expedition�African Discoveries, page 372:
#*: Does your Highness know what became of the other ?
#* 1998, Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask (ISBN 0192838423), page 83:
#*: �Yes, madame, since your Highness has deigned to begin, will you deign to finish��
Usage notes
This is the second-person form of address to a prince or princess. Verbs used with this pronoun as the subject are conjugated in the third person. The forms used when referring in the third person are His Highness (to a man) and Her Highness (to a woman).
If the prince or princess is a member of a royal family, the full form is Your Royal Highness; if a member of an imperial family (i.e., the family of an emperor or empress), the form is Your Imperial Highness.
The corresponding form for a king, queen, emperor, or empress is Your Majesty.
Translations
Finnish: teidän korkeutenne
Japanese: ��
Slovak: vaša výsosť f
Spanish: Su Alteza
See also
Her Highness
Her Imperial Highness
Her Royal Highness
Her Serene Highness
His Highness
His Imperial Highness
His Royal Highness
His Serene Highness
Your Majesty
Your Royal Highness
Your Royal Majesty
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