Quote Originally Posted by McClef View Post
It should be Ma'am as in ham not Ma'am as in harm. The convention is to use "Your Majesty" once in a conversation with the Queen and "Ma'am" thereafter.

I am surprised at the usage of "Your Grace" as this is the form of address for a Duke/Duchess or an Archbishop. The highest title always takes precedence so although the Queen is Duke of Lancaster and Duchess of Edinburgh, Majesty tops Grace just as the Duke of Edinburgh is Highness which tops Grace. It would be an archaic usage for a monarch in direct address in any case though indirectly "The Queen's Grace" or "Her Gracious Majesty" were used in past times.



I appreciate your sentiments but I wouldn't call the President of the USA "Friend Barack" but "Mr President."

Such a familiar form of address is not acceptable in protocol for any head of state, royal or otherwise.
For a member of the Society of Friends, addressing someone by a title and not by their name isn't acceptable.

Coincidentally, I ran across this amusing anecdote a while back:

FWIW, I have it on good authority that HM the Queen gets as informal as is practical when out of the public eye. (A friend of mine was an officer on whatever ship it was she and HRH Prince Philip stayed on when they visited Canada in 1982. Philip showed up in the officer's wardroom (is that the right term?) and bought the officers a drink. She showed up a few minutes later, had a gin & tonic, told the men "Oh, please don't. Just call me Ma'am if you really must call me anything but Elizabeth," and then they toddled off to bed.)