How do you address three princes who are brothers?
I'm practicing translating TV dialogue to English and this drama is about 3 princes who are brothers. The eldest, the middle, and the youngest one. In the show, they don't really refer their names but instead calling them "the eldest, the middle, the youngest" as literal translation because their names are so long to call. I'm wondering if English also has this kind of calling without name other than "Your / His Highness".

How are you going to call the three princess without using name nor Your/His Highness? Can I call "The youngest prince, the middle prince, or the youngest prince?

For example :
- The youngest prince is going to the gala dinner. The eldest prince does not want to go to the gala dinner.
- The middle prince is going to marry a commoner.

Can I give them nickname Prince I, Prince II, Prince III?

Or it's necessary to use name like "Prince + name" at all times even though the names are long?
For example
- Prince A is at home but Prince B is Thank you.out of town.

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How do you address three princes who are brothers?
I'm practicing translating TV dialogue to English and this drama is about 3 princes who are brothers. The eldest, the middle, and the youngest one. In the show, they don't really refer their names but instead calling them "the eldest, the middle, the youngest" as literal translation because their names are so long to call. I'm wondering if English also has this kind of calling without name other than "Your / His Highness".

How are you going to call the three princess without using name nor Your/His Highness? Can I call "The youngest prince, the middle prince, or the youngest prince?

For example : 
- The youngest prince is going to the gala dinner. The eldest prince does not want to go to the gala dinner. 
- The middle prince is going to marry a commoner.

Can I give them nickname Prince I, Prince II, Prince III?

Or it's necessary to use name like "Prince + name" at all times even though the names are long?
For example 
- Prince A is at home but Prince B is Thank you.out of town.

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It's perfectly ok to refer to them as eldest/middle/youngest, it sounds natural. Prince 1/2/3 is doable, but it sounds unnatural.

I do wonder how useful this knowledge is likely to be; most Brits don't spend a lot of time talking about princes, and if we do, we are not particularly careful about how we do it. If you are likely to meet multiple princes as part of your work, you should ask your employer for special training in how to do it.

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Someone from the UK could probably answer this better, but as an American who neither knows nor cares to know the correct royal protocol, I call the princes by their names (ex: Prince William and Prince Harry).  If you're telling a story, you could call your fictional royalty Prince 1, Prince 2 and Prince 3, or Prince Tom, Prince John and Prince Harry.

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Well, English people the use abbreviations for names like Sam is Samantha

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