Hon to an Embassy gives Sir Alex ander Cadogan the official right to the style "His Excellency". The honorific is of course freely used by convention by many nations but factually British official use of it strictly prescribed by" regulation. which, too often, is ignored, with the result that many British officials and joven their wives, are burdened in the press and in communications with a dignity not theirs, To take the women first: only six ladies in the British Empire are entitled to be called "Her Excellency", They are the wives of the Governors-General of Canada, New Zealand, Australia, India, South Africa and the Trish lRree State. All Governors-General and Governors are entitled to be called "Hlis Excellency." The same privilege applies to Ambassadors—but not their wives as already explained—and to the Commander-in-Chief in India. All other uses of the term "His Ex-[cellency" for British subjects may be complimentary but they are not comet.
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