Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook gaze across the Pond from their royal throne of kings, their scepter’d isle, their earth of majesty, their seat of Mars, their other Eden, demi-paradise, their fortress built by Nature for herself against infection and the hand of war, their happy breed of men, their little world, their precious stone set in the silver sea, which serves it in the office of a wall or as a moat defensive to a house, against the envy of less happier lands, their blessed plot, their earth, their realm, their England to ponder why upstart rudesbys and poltroons would engage in shocking scenes of treason against His Royal Highness King George III:
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Royal protocol screwup, Mark! A monarch is addressed as “Majesty.” “Highness” is for princes. George III wasn’t very majestic but his proper title is still “Majesty.”