Anonymous ID: 1afb9a Jan. 18, 2020, 11:52 a.m. No.7847687   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>7847632

The HRH distinction seems to be relatively "modern" and related to limiting financial access of the royal family to immediate family members only. Really good read on it here:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/royal-titles-names-history-highness-baby-sussex-harry-explain/

 

One of the moar relevant parts:

 

"By the 1830s, however, Queen Victoria found she had numerous aunts and uncles who had very little public responsibilities but voracious spending habits, as well as various cousins in the lines of Cumberland and Gloucester who all desired to be recognised as royal princes. The HRH style was soon limited to grandchildren of a monarch, so the more distant cousins were titled HH (His or Her Highness). HH was also used on the continent for princes of formerly sovereign houses in the now-defunct Holy Roman Empire, as was โ€˜His Serene Highnessโ€™ (HSH) for minor princes, a survival of which is seen today in the titles of the princes of Liechtenstein and Monaco.

 

During her reign, Victoria would further limit the use of HRH to children of a sovereign (of either gender) and grandchildren of a sovereign (in the male line). George V in 1917, when modifying the house rules (famously changing the name of the family from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor), clarified this, and added the eldest son of the eldest grandson."