1.   Always changing her look, she went for medieval European royalty this year in a strapless gown of midnight blue velvet and satin by Los Angeles designer Bob Mackie.

2.   European royalty paid homage.

3.   For the next six years, he rubbed shoulders with European royalty as he wrote about the exiled governments in the British capital.

4.   Giambologna liked to work small as well as large, and he made numerous statuettes that were distributed as gifts to European royalty.

5.   He played before European royalty.

6.   If the funeral had been a true state occasion, far more diplomats and members of European royalty would have been present, but they were not invited.

7.   Like European royalty, American dynasties are linked to one another.

8.   Miller, a more flamboyant New Englander, officially lives in Hong Kong but hobnobbed with European royalty.

9.   Once the concern of European royalty, the obsession with thread count filtered down a few years ago to the very, very rich.

10.   Soanes spends far more time with disadvantaged people than with European royalty, though.