| YORKER | A delivery for a Royal House and the Queen (6) |
| YORK | The Queen was missing from the delivery for a Royal House (4) |
| DYNASTY | General name for a royal house or powerful family; or, a 1980s series with Joan Collins as Alexis Colby (7) |
| CHINAMAN | A delivery for the foreigner (8) |
| SURROGATEMOTHER | One making a delivery for another? (9,6) |
| TUDOR | English royal house and period of history written about in books by authors including David Starkey, Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory (5) |
| WINDSOR | British royal house and castle |
| ANIMAL | One starts new mail delivery for a living thing (6) |
| NOBALL | Illegal delivery for a toff and everybody else (2-4) |
| PRINCE | The cost of including the North for a royal son (6) |
| TUDORS | A gent thrown off state ground leading to a royal house (6) |
| FOREST | From "outside wood" as opposed to parcus (park) or "walled-in wood", word for a royal woodland preserved for hunting originally, later any dense and verdurous tract of trees (6) |
| PALACE | Large house for a royal family (6) |
| VALOIS | A royal house of France, ruling from 1328 until the death of Henry III in 1589 (6) |
| REPTON | Landscapist considered the successor to Capability Brown, whose designs include those at the gardens/grounds of Cobham Hall, Dyrham Park, Harewood House and the Longleat estate (6) |
| TREVOR | Irish author of novels including The Old Boys, The Boarding House and The Children of Dynmouth (6) |
| STUART | Foolishly trust a royal house (6) |
| ORANGE | Love to wander about a royal house (6) |
| NICOLE | US author of novels Great House and The History of Love (6,6) |
| SAPPER | Common name for a Royal Engineer (6) |
