Chapel Royal is a designation given to certain chapels and churches with links to the monarchy, predominantly in England and Canada. In the Royal Household of the United Kingdom, the Chapels Royal is
The Queen's Chapel at St James's Palace in London, UK, one of numerous chapels royal in Britain
The Christ Church Royal Chapel near Deseronto, Canada, one of Canada's three chapels royal
Children of the Chapel Royal (in scarlet) at the National Service of Remembrance at The Cenotaph in London, 2025.
Portrait of a Boy Chorister of the Chapel Royal by Richard Buckner (c. 1873); the distinctive scarlet livery worn by the children of the chapel was introduced in the 1660s.
A royal peculiar is a Church of England parish or church exempt from the jurisdiction of the diocese and the province in which it lies, and subject to the direct jurisdiction of the monarch.
Chapel Royal
…this reputedly is the oldest continually-used Anglican church in the Western Hemisphere. In the Church of England, extant chapels royal are classed as royal peculiars (being under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the monarch, rather than that of a diocesan bishop). As a collective body, the Chapels Royal are deemed…