January 3rd
I noticed that the less the monarchs were working politicians the more money they spent ornamenting them. The culmination of this development is the huge Crown Imperial, an art nouveau job created for the coronation of Edward the Fat in 1901, when the Archbishop of Canterbury placed the world’s most expensively useless hat on the world’s most expensively useless head.
FROM: A report to the trustees o the Bellahouston Travelling Scholarship. Alasdair Gray
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