[MR] A Question of Protocol

[gerald at beltonphoto.com]

>>>royal thrones:
>>>slight bow when passing
>> 
>> 
>> I've never really liked that custom; ISTR that when William Tell
>> was asked to do that, all kinds of nastiness happened.
>
>Yeah, but the cap was the cap of a tyrant. This is the 
>actual throne of the king.

I was taught that you bow to the crown, not to the person wearing the
crown. I have also had the experience of being a retainer, and having
people bow as I carried a crown on a velvet pillow from the king's tent to
the feast hall. And I was taught (by the First Knight of Meridies) that we
are honoring the ideals of chivalry and honor that are embodied in the
symbolic crown, and not the individual who happens to be wearing that crown
in this particular half-year. 

Lord Owain Penbras
Buckston-on-Eno, Windmaster's Hill



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