What is the difference between a royalist and a cavalier?

Question

What is the difference between a royalist and a cavalier?

Answer 1

A royalist sits on a throne.  A cavalier a Horse.

Answer 2

A royalist is a supporter of a monarch, a monarchy, a king or other royal head of state.

A cavalier was a supporter of King Charles I, King of Scotland, England and Ireland.   Support was essentially political at first but became military support as the War of the Three Kingdoms (otherwise called the English Civil War).

The word derives from the French word for a knight or horseman.

So all cavaliers are royalists but a very specific few royalists were cavaliers.

Answer 3

A Royalist supports a particular monarch as head of state for a particular kingdom, or of a particular dynastic claim.

Cavalier was the name used by Parliamentarians for a Royalist supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War (1642–1651). Typically, the term "Cavalier" referred to the high-born supporters of King Charles, who were fond of fashionable, extravagant clothing.

Answer 4

One rides a horse,the other,some queen.