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A royal court you are presented to, ranked in and eventually trusted by. It contains sixty researched decrees of etiquette across ten chapters, an interactive state place setting, scenario-based court trials, a treasury of real museum relics, and a portrait chamber that frames your likeness in gold.

Only for the Portrait Chamber. The camera lets you sit for your court portrait; the photo library lets you choose a likeness you already have; and adding to your library is used only when you tap Seal & Save to keep the finished framed portrait.

Nothing is requested at launch, and refusing any of them leaves the rest of the app fully usable.

It stays on your device. The portrait is written to the app's own storage and is never uploaded anywhere. If you save a sealed portrait, the copy goes to your own photo library and nowhere else.

The Treasury draws real objects live from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's open collection, so it needs an internet connection. If a wing is empty:

• Check that you are online, then tap the refresh circle on the wing header.
• Try a different wing — some are larger than others.
• If you are on a restricted network, the museum's servers may be blocked.

The rest of the app — the Codex, the Setting Studio and the Trials — works entirely offline.

When the app first opens, it reads the museum's department index exactly once. That single reading decides which wings of the Treasury exist and what each is called for the rest of the session. The Royal Charter screen shows you exactly what happened, including whether it was read live or fell back to the built-in list.

• 45 merit for each decree committed to memory
• 60 merit for each correct answer in a Court Trial
• 25 merit for each piece identified in the Setting Studio
• 20 merit for each relic studied in the Treasury
• 80 merit for sitting for your portrait

Ten ranks run from Page of the Backstairs to Lord Chamberlain, and ten orders are conferred for particular accomplishments.

Not individually at present. Abdicate & Begin Again in Your Regalia clears everything — name, house, merit, orders, mastered decrees and portrait — and returns you to the presentation. If a rename would be useful to you, say so in the form above; it is on the list.

Progress is stored on the device only, so deleting the app, or moving to a new device without a full backup restore, will clear it. Restoring an encrypted iPhone or iCloud backup brings it back with the app.

Please tell us. Every decree was written from published reporting and reference works, but etiquette is a subject where sources disagree and conventions shift. Choose Content correction above, name the decree, and cite what you have if you can.

No account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. Your name, house, progress and portrait never leave the device. The app makes network requests only to The Metropolitan Museum of Art's open collection and to Wikipedia, to fetch public reference material — neither request carries anything identifying you.

If you write to us through this page, we receive only what you type here plus the email address you give, and we use it solely to answer you.

Yes. The app is universal and supports every orientation on both iPhone and iPad. In landscape the navigation bar becomes a rail on the leading edge and the layout reflows around it.