| KINGSCHAMPION | Hereditary figure in the British royal household whose role was to challenge rivals to a new monarch (5,8) |
| ATKINS | Vera ___, a celebrated figure in the British Special Operations Executive in charge of agents sent to France (6) |
| CORONATIONOATH | Affirmation made by a new monarch |
| CROWNED | Struck like a new monarch? (7) |
| EQUERRY | Officer in the British royal household who attends a particular member of the family (7) |
| LAUREATE | Poet ____ , honorary literary position with the British royal household first created in 1668 (8) |
| STEPFATHER | In the British royal family, the relationship of Tim Laurence to Peter Phillips (10) |
| CHAMBERLAIN | Lord _, the chief official of the British royal household (11) |
| POETLAUREATE | Member of the British royal household who writes verse (4,8) |
| ANKLET | A new monarch's permitted to exhibit ornamental chain (6) |
| SAPPER | Private in the British Royal Engineers (6) |
| FABERGEEGGS | Quartet in the British royal family |
| GRENADIERS | Guardsmen of a senior regiment whose role includes Trooping the Colour and defending Buckingham Palace in bearskins and scarlet tunics (10) |
| LETO | Jared, U.S. actor whose role in the film Dallas Buyers Club won him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar (4) |
| WHIGS | Rivals to the Tories in the 18th and 19th centuries (5) |
| MODS | Group in the 1960s who were rivals to Rockers and were noted for smart dress and riding motor scooters (4) |
| ANNE | First name of the Princess Royal who, in 1976, became the first member of the British royal family to compete in an Olympic Games (4) |
| SEEKERS | Players in Quidditch whose role is to catch the golden snitch (7) |
| ANDYGARCIA | Actor whose role as Vincent Mancini in The Godfather Part III won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (4,6) |
| MATADOR | What is a bullfighter whose role is to kill the bull? (7) |
