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Dear fellow Brits, do you realise how fucking stupid “knight commander of the British empire” sounds to everyone else?

I can assure you, it sounds very stupid indeed.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

Wikipedia says the House of Lords is formally "The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled". And the full list of the king's titles are quite something...

There's a lot of competition for ridiculous sounding things.

in reply to Sarah Brown

All these titles sound like something from Monty Python - like they're taking the piss.
in reply to Sarah Brown

Bet it has inspired a fair amount of so-so media over the years. Has that pompous sound to it.