It's good to be king.

To be a king – well, a prince – is magnificent; to be fawned at, and deferred to, and cheered, and adulated; to have every wish granted – no, not granted, but attended to immediately by people who obviously wish they had anticipated it; to be the centre of attention, with everyone bending their backs and craning their necks and loving you to ecstasy – it is the most wonderful thing.

Royal Flash, p.145, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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