[MR] Queen's Corner (Court etiquette with a challenge physically)

[koldune]

Much of any actual award presentation should be putting the awardee as
much at ease as possible. With that in mind, I think perhaps a great
deal could be done in advance of the court in question, or even before
the event. 

It seems to me that whoever submits a person for an award should
probably know very well if that person is confined to a wheelchair or
whatever, either permanently or temporarily. The submittor could
include that point with the information on which events the honoree
will likely attend. (Instruction in writing an award submission could
even encourage including such information.) Everyone who evaluates the
award submission could then make sure that whoever comes next in that
consultation is discreetly aware of the honoree's situation, up to and
including the court herald and the presiding royals. The herald could
then follow up at the event to find out the awardees current condition,
and work out something to compensate in advance—by changing the throne
layout, if necessary, or simply by giving the royals a timely heads-up
for a reminder. Forewarned being forearmed, everyone stands less of a
chance for any embarrassment that way.

Yours in service,
Darri Kveldulfsson

Skal ek raðandi (I shall endure [11th-century Icelandic]).
Per chevron erminois and argent, a chevron azure and in base a serpent nowed gules
The greatest school of magic is life itself; the strongest spell, the one you cast yourself.


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