Would you bow or curtsy to royalty in a social setting?

[WhatWouldGinDo]

If you met a member of the RF in a social situation where you are there in the same capacity (e.g. you're another mum watching your DC play sport, or you're at a private house as you have mutual friends), should you bow/curtsy? And should you address them as YM /YRH when you're introduced.

It's not happened to me yet (only met them when they're working and therefore did curtsy/YRH them) but I've always been intrigued what people if they end up sitting next to them at the school concert.

I have, and I didn't.

I would bow/cursty in a formal setting and would enjoy doing it - but would only do it for the king and queen, not any other royalty.

Nope. I have met them. Just shook hands. My twat of a colleague curtsied.

No, I wouldn't either socially or in a formal setting. I would absolutely afford them the same courtesy I'd show to anyone else, but I don't acknowledge them as superior human beings in whose presence I should curtsey. I wouldn't use 'your majesty' or 'your royal highness' either - 'sir' or 'madam' I'd be OK with as you might use those formally to address anyone.

Do you attend court? It’s absolutely standard there (barristers and normally instructing solicitors and court staff).

Surely you are asking a question and people are answering?
Why ask it if you only want 60% of the population to answer you!

I would be polite like I am to anyone in first met, be that a mayor, a volunteer, a new person at work whatwver

As far as I'm concerned, they are human beings like me. They deserve to be treated with the same level respect and dignity that I would show to any other human being. No more, no less
I do not bow or curtsey. I do not use honorific titles that have not been earned. I am, however, polite and professional, as I would be towards anyone else that I was meeting in a work context

Beautifully put, @MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack

There are some I wouldn't even wish to be in the same room with I declined to have my name put forward for a gong rather than meet Charles - but if it came to it they'd get proper courtesy and nothing else

Ceremonial curtsey, probably, I find all the old protocols rather fascinating and it would be like a very brief time travel.

During covid I enjoyed doing a little Regency bob when greeting people, felt like I was in a Jane Austen novel, it was a nice distraction.

Wouldn't acknowledge them if they were at the touchline. I'd assume they wanted to be left alone.

I would not bow or curtesy to anyone.

Yes.

‘Hello, entitled parasite, paedophile protector!’

Never in a million years. I think it’s time they stopped doing it among themselves too. The women especially look like absolute fools when they curtsey.

From either of you? 😂

They really have not stopped doing it between themselves, at the funeral of the duchess of Kent they were all bobbing up and down on the steps, it looked like a game of whack-a-mole!

The King only.

I wouldn’t bow to any of them

Haven't RTFT but never. Any.

That said I'm voluntarily unlikely to find myself in any position where it might be a consideration.

I work somewhere where Kate comes as a private person from time to time. We have been told under no circumstances to use any kind of royal title or curtsey to her. We are not to seek her out, but simply to acknowledge or speak to her if it is entirely natural to do so, and to do so with the same, natural courtesy that we would use towards any other service-user. And we are to address her as Mrs Wales.

Absolutely, categorically not. Not ever.

They sit on the bog and have a shit, same as I do. And their shit stinks, same as mine does. So why would I even consider bowing & scraping to them? Fuck that.

Standard if you are on a legal team. Judge bows to you and you bow to them. Outside of a courtroom if I come across a judge (not much any more as I’m now retired), I’d refer to judge as ‘Judge’, inside courtroom ‘Your Honour’.

Also I used to be heavily involved in Greek Orthodox Church. Much bowing over priests hands and kissing of said hands. Not for them as persons, but for what they represent.

My Indian neighbours bow at the feet of their elders.

Similar to the King as HoS. If he’s there, in his capacity as HoS, yes I will nod head, not curtsey. Personal capacity, then no. So essentially if the royal is representing me for my country, then yes I may acknowledge them, by a nod of the head. Too arthritic to curtsey.

Nope

"Alright bruv?"

I would in a formal setting but that’s less to do with royalty and more to do with occasion

frankly I’d get a bit of a thrill curtseying in a posh sweeping frock compared to normal daily life of wearing pyjamas/gym gear and walking dog

I might be tempted by a proper court curtsey in a posh frock- but the bobs are just ridiculous.

I would, no. They aren't my 'betters', which is where the whole concept originated.

I have, however been curtsied/bowed to and done it myself in another context entirely - it was cultural. I found it weird as fuck initially, then realised that while status did effect who bowed to who, on the whole it was more egalitarian. Everyone was on the giving/receiving side at different times. There was no set for life 'status' that made you a permanent bower/receiver of bows.