They don't want to be royals, but they want to be royally treated.
"But I look at people who have been in politics for five, 10, 15 years, and muck up, you see them muck up and think, 'You guys are supposed to be pro!' "People that have gone to Oxbridge, had thousands spent on their education, and I mean they are royally mucking up".
But it has cashed in royally on the shift to mobile, even though its origins long predate the mobile craze.
It pursued the local consumer-credit division of Lloyds TSB, a British bank until the price rose too high.If Itaú has a weakness, it is that customers are not treated as royally as shareholders.
First, it generates no money, thereby royally messing up Mr Obama's budget.
The church provides child-care for thousands of children every weekend: this started out as a necessity (parents will not come if their children are not taken care of) but has become a hook in its own right (parents can relax at the service while children are royally entertained).
Like most other big private companies, their shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, and their bosses are paid royally.
It seems to have foreseen, even before last September's royally endorsed military coup, that the army and the monarchy were about to move into the centre of the action.The bloodless putsch, toppling an elected prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, delighted many Bangkok residents, who turned out in droves to have their photographs taken beaming beside the soldiers on the streets.
Tonga's nobles, however, are worried about being outnumbered in a popularly elected assembly and the royally appointed prime minister, Feleti Sevele, has been slow to embrace reform.
He was sentenced to 52 years in jail, most of it in solitary: thoroughly, royally screwed, as he put it, by "snotty law-school graduates…with too much power and too few scruples".The CIA's story was that he had gone rogue.
