"GREAT MAGICIAN AND GREAT THIEF"
If King Getrfge adheres^ to the style in which he now "appears in the Court Circular, and dropping "His Majesty,^ appears henceforth only as "The King," he will outrage no constitutional precedent (says the Daily Chronicle). Formerly our kings were "his grace." Henry VIII. was the first "highness," and so remained • until Francis I. addressed him as "your majesty." Courtiers in the old days, and a Jeames Yellowplush Press in later times, have been in tho main responsible for the- high sfliCi-ig_pf_raK;l titles. But tW,_ had moaeis upon vfhich to rely. In the craya of Spanish glory, a whok volume was required to codify the preposterous adulatory appellations besiowed by servile courtiers on the sovereign. "Cortesias" these cognominal decorations were 'styled; and they became so monstrously ludicrous that they were ultimately abolished by Phillip 111., and all reduced plainly to this. "The King, our Lord." The Kaiser, one fancies, must have kept the old volume by him. Or he may have gone East for inspiration, where the King of Monomotapa, was ''Lord, the Sun and Moon, Great Magician, and Great Thief."
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 57, 5 September 1917, Page 10
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186"GREAT MAGICIAN AND GREAT THIEF" Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 57, 5 September 1917, Page 10
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