If you see British royalty on American soil how deeply do you bow/curtsy , do you say "your Royal Higness?

Question

Or will a simple "Your Majesty " do?

Answer 1

Only subjects should bow/curstey to their own monarchs. If you are an American, a simple handshake is proper etiquette.

Answer 2

As I am an American, performing a court curtsy or half curtsy is not required. However, since my family's heritage dates back prior to William the Conqueror, in respect of my deep English ties I would perform the type of curtsy approxiate for the occasion.

However, if I was the Head of State of a Country - or the spouse to one, I would not curtsy, as Heads of State are social equals. A prince or princess is not a Head of State, so they would bow or drop a curtsy to a Head of State.

Answer 3

I don't bow and curtsy to anybody, especially in my own country. We already have Princess Fergie over here hawking diet food, Camilla is getting "Royal" treatment for doing nothing more than sleeping with another woman's husband while betraying her own for 20 some years, something the Queen should be used to what with Prince Phillip being a skirt chaser himself all these years. Not to mention the fact that Phillip ordered Charles to marry Diana, knowing his son didn't love her and Charles should have been man enough in his 30's to marry whom he wanted, not who his Daddy picked out for him. No curtsy and bow for this group from this American girl.

Answer 4

When ANY foreign royalty are on American soil,you may bow or curtsey out of courtesy,but it's not required. Nowadays,most royals will shake hands,but you may bow your head as you are presented. Oh,and you don't speak unless spoken to first; "How do you do ,Your Majesty"?

Answer 5

If you are American, whether you bow or curtsey is up to you. You should still address a prince or princess as 'Your highness' or the Queen as 'Your majesty' in the first instance, then thereafter (assuming you have a long conversation) as 'sir' or 'ma'am'.

Are you hoping to see the Queen next year?

Answer 6

Your Highness (Prince/Princess)
Your Majesty (the Sovereign, the Queen)

If you are British, on USA soil, you should still bow/courtsy even as you would if you were on UK soil.

If you are Canadian, and on Canadian American soil, you should still bow/courtsy.

If you are in the USofA and they are in the USofA and you were to meet them, follow the protocols as explained to you by the Government department of the USofA.

Of course, always be polite.

Answer 7

If you're American it probably doesn't matter, I'm sure as long as you use common courtesy and a touch of etiquette and you "don
't touch them on the back "as a our prime minister John Howard did and it was a big fat dilemma for a month!.Big deal we are all human. So are they..... If they can't deal with real people maybe they need to find a new vocation. seriously they aren't gods or saints, they are people like everybody else. They just just have a higher income than most people in the world.

Answer 8

It's not mandatory to bow or curtsy to royalty when you meet them. If you are introduced to them you address them as "Your Royal Highness" and thereafter as "Sir/Madam". Should you meet the Queen, you would address her as "Your Majesty" and thereafter as "Ma'am".

Answer 9

I wouldn't curtsy, I am not a British subject, but I would call him or her Sir or Ma'am out of respect.

Answer 10

How deeply you bow or curtsey has nothing to do with where you encounter the Queen; it has to do with your social standing. If you are of sufficiently high aristocratic status you would bow or curtsey by genouflecting just one knee.