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The royal singular implies a person leads or commands, speaks for, a number of other people.
"We are ready", in example when spoken by the King of England, implies England itself is "ready" for whatever is in the rest of the context of the phrase.
"They" would be the third-person version of this. "They" represents the speaker of the masses, First-Of-Many.