How to address your betters:
- Kings: “Your Majesty”
- Popes: “Your Holiness”
- Emperors: “Your Imperial Majesty”
- Presidents: “Your Excellency” (“Mr. President” in the United States)
- Dukes: “Your Grace”
- Magistrates: “Your Worship”
- Judges: “Your Honor”
In 1732, Alexander Pope gave a greyhound to George II. He engraved a couplet on its collar: “I am his Highness’ dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”