The men in gold trimmed unitards sometimes sweep across the stage like piratical gods; the women in postmodern tutus are glamorous, then regally remote.
On Wednesday, Lebedev also sported a relatively sober blazer and waistcoat – albeit teamed with a black shirt and dark designer jeans – in contrast to his formal attire, which occasionally appears to be regally inspired.
If, following a dodgy patch after the death of Princess Diana, the latter part of her reign has been a PR triumph for the Queen, much of the credit must surely to go the woman who now appears to impersonate – or as one critic has it, "regally inhabit" – her on pretty much a full-time basis: Helen Mirren.
Although regally gowned for her honorary doctorate, Mrs Richards confessed that her big white hair stopped her from wearing the cap.
STANDARD LIFE, a 175-year-old Scottish insurer, has presided as regally and solidly over Edinburgh's financial industry as the capital's castle has over the streets below.
WHEN the travails of Fiat were splashed across the front pages for weeks on end in the mid-1980s, thenthen chairman, Giovanni Agnelli, regally dismissed speculation as "la telenovella dell'estate" (the summer soap).
The cult statue there represented Serapis as a robed and bearded figure regally enthroned, his right hand resting on Cerberus (the three-headed dog who guards the gate of the underworld), while his left held an upraised sceptre.
There's the small entourage of band members and associates, the unlit spliff clamped between his fingers, and the regally purple, monogrammed Adidas tracksuit.
Most non-professional models might have shown an iota of nerves for such an occasion, but not Wurst who looked pretty much magnificent; that steely, intense facial expression; those dramatic hand gestures; palms regally upturned and have you ever seen such masterfully defined eyebrows?
5. Sleeping It Off Man Just as every Spanish beach has a berk who fell asleep four hours ago and now has second-degree burns, every festival has a regally refreshed reveller who peaked early and decided to have a lie down – usually found topless alongside a campsite thoroughfare.
Sally Clarke's customers are happy to deliver themselves into the hands of someone so regally confident.
