The Six of Calais

The most amusing thing about the first performance of this little
play was the exposure it elicited of the quaint illiteracy of our
modern London journalists. Their only notion of a king was a
pleasant and highly respectable gentleman in a bowler hat and
Victorian beard, shaking hands affably with a blushing football
team. To them a queen was a dignified lady, also Victorian as to
her coiffure, graciously receiving bouquets from excessively washed
children in beautiful new clothes. Such were their...