His less hunky brother Joachim does, however, have the best title: Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia.
Even today, when some of the most imperial of chief executives are scrambling to placate angry shareholders, Mr. Scrushy sometimes appears barely able to contain his enmity for people who raise any of these issues.
Raphael's lots include a showpiece imperial ( of its 2001 first label merlot ($450 to $650) and a case of three bottles each of cabernet franc, cabernet sauvignon, first label merlot and petit verdot from the 2001 vintage ($350 to $480).
Gleefully feminist, the work pokes amiable fun at the vainglorious statues of men (Nelson, George IV, and generals Havelock and Napier) that surround it in this most imperial of British public spaces.
Douglas Hodge makes a doomed sense out of the Emperor's disintegration: he begins by barking his lines like a sergeant major, and ends by capering around his human pies, chef's hat wagging, mouth leering, eyes winking, the most nuttily imperial of celebrity cooks.
"A red-shined fireman seized with either hand Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan by their coat-collars, tucked the Prince Imperial of France under one arm and the Veiled Murderess under the other, and coolly departed for the street," according to an article in The New York Tribune.
