0 a person who supports a ruling king or queen or who believes that a king or queen should rule their country:
1 relating to royalists (= people who support a ruling king or queen or who believe that a king or queen should rule their country), or to their ideas:
The protesters are a mix of royalist elites, generals, and businessmen.
royalist sympathies
French royalists launched ceremonies to bury the heart of Louis XVII, the boy king who died in prison in 1795.
The new Assembly was mainly composed of conservatives, royalists and moderate republicans.
The castle could never again be used as a royalist stronghold.
The staunchly royalist party won 44 of the 47 seats in the new parliament.
Many of those occupying the other royalist camp adopted not dissimilar views.
While pro-aristocratic attitudes became identified with the royalist party, their liberal opponents became ever more criticial of aristocratic liberalism.
