How to address your betters:

• Kings: “Your Majesty”
• Popes: “Your Holiness”
• Emperors: “Your Imperial Majesty”
• Presidents: “Your Excellency” (“Mr. President” in the United States)
• Dukes: “Your Grace”
• Magistrates: “Your Worship”
• Judges: “Your Honor”

In 1732, Alexander Pope gave a greyhound to George II. He engraved a couplet on its collar: “I am his Highness’ dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”