Expect mismatches, misinterpretations and just plain mistakes to rule the stage.
In a way the timing was all too familiar in a royal history of mismatches, misstatements, missteps and plain mistakes that undermine public affection for an ancient and, its critics would say, anachronistic institution that sustains dynastic privilege by what some would depict as regal smoke and mirrors.
One result is erroneous payments, either via plain mistakes or vulnerability to fraudulent claims.
Europeans are able to see what has disturbingly flown over the heads of so many in the Republican Party, who have mistaken "plain talk" for potentially dangerous rhetoric, and tough diplomacy for obvious and confounding bigotry.
This tends to put them at a disadvantage in a society where plain noise is sometimes mistaken for authoritative opinion.
Jon Trickett, the Labour MP for Hemsworth, said Cameron appeared to have mistaken Yorkshire plain-speaking for people hating each other, when in fact there is a huge sense of community and friendliness.
WITHOUT the sign in front, the plain brick building could be mistaken for a school or some back-lot business.
The grand jury declined to indict the officer, and Officer Browning's lawyer, Charles J. Uliano, said Mr. Healy was "mistaken and just plain wrong".
He was often mistaken for a plain-clothes policeman and many of his colleagues referred to him by his nickname, "the Commander".
I collect this kind of story, which comes as a corrective to the old "sophisticated" position: namely, that what is presented as history in Vasari's Lives of the Artists is made up largely of legend, hearsay, propaganda, rhetorical tropes, ignorance and plain old mistakes.
