Isn't there a difference between royalty and nobility?

[colder_in_minnesota]

Maybe I was asleep during that lecture and didn't get the full details, but I thought there was.

[Jackofalltrades216]

nobility deals with character..royalty is superficial.. unless the people make it "royalty" i.e. Michael Jackson "King" of pop..etc. royalty of course is mainly associated with the bloodlines of those in monarchies or tribal type governments .. you certainly can be a noble person and be treated like royalty ..but being royal may produce no nobility see Henry VIII.. this is just of the top..hope it helps

[cfvh]

In countries with royalty and nobility, royalty is at the top of the chain, so to speak. The upper classes in such countries would have been rewarded with titles for services or loyalty rendered to the monarch. They compose the nobility.

The definition can blur though... Some people consider royalty only to be those who hold the rank of King and up (emperor) and their families. Some people consider anyone who was sovereign to be royalty. Indeed, anyone who was a sovereign would not be mere nobility.

In places like Germany, mediatized families (those who once ruled directly under the Holy Roman Emperor, but had since had a lord (king, etc) placed between them and the emperor) fell in a grey zone between "royalty" and nobility.