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In European royalty, the most common ways to identify royalty are:
* '''[[Cool Crown|A Crown]]'''. How can you have an [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]] without a [[Cool Crown]]? Okay, you can, but it just wouldn't be the same. Be it [
* '''[[Pimped-Out Cape|An Ermine Cape]]'''. Any cape, robe, or overdress (which some queens wore as state robes) that is decorated with either [[Pretty in Mink|ermine, some other expensive fur]], or some other extravagant fabric or decoration ([[Gold Makes Everything Shiny|gold embroidery]] is also common). This is the second most commonly used way to identify royalty. In [[Theatre]], it's actually preferable to a crown, [[Bigger Is Better|because it's larger and would of course be more visible to the audience]] (take the page picture).
** Common colors for these robes are [[Gold Makes Everything Shiny]], Vermilion, Blue, and [[Purple Is Powerful]].
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* [[Real Life]] aversion: beauty pageants usually give the winner a tiara (and sometimes an ermine cape and scepter) and she is called a beauty queen. No royalty, but what the hell.
* Will most certainly show up any [[Awesome Moment of Crowning|coronation]], even if the other accessories don't.
* The [[Real Life]] [
** She does have to wear the lighter but even more ultra-fancy [
* Any contest that crowns a 'King' (rarely 'Queen' in sport) will often have this and a cape as props for the winner. American Go-Karting, for example, has 'King of the Streets', a race where the winner gets these (as well as some more useful prizes, like cash and test rides).
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Real Life]], sorta: every parliamentary body in Canada has a Ceremonial Mace which represents the power and authority of the reigning monarch. It's only a "sorta" example because they aren't actually requisite for Queen Elizabeth II herself. Instead, it's required for the actual business of Parliament to proceed. Without the Mace, a Provincial or Federal Parliament isn't even allowed to ''sit down''.
** The ceremonial mace is common in most English-speaking legislatures; the UK parliament at Westminster started the tradition (the Mace of the House of Commons -- Cromwell apparently asked for 'that fool's bauble' to be removed as he angrily dismissed the Rump in 1653, but it didn't take), and the new devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly both have very cool-looking, postmodern maces. The Australian House of Representatives and various other Commonwealth legislatures also have maces. Even the United States House of Representatives has [
*** If you're wondering why the US House has a mace, recall that the US was once a collection of thirteen British colonies, most if not all of which had maces in ''their'' legislatures. It just didn't seem ''right'' that a directly-elected legislature would meet without a mace. Why this logic didn't apply to the Senate is unclear, but perhaps the Senate, whose members were elected by the state legislatures at the time, was seen as more of a diplomatic-like body.
** Every Commonwealth governmental assembly has a Royal Mace as part of the way that the commonwealth works. The (British) Houses of Parliament have three, two in the house of Lords. In 1965 the (then over 160 year old) Royal Mace of the Bahamas was thrown from the building by the opposition leader over the way the party in power was redrawing the constituency borders (he claimed they where trying to dilute his party's voter base). It worked, they could not go on until the mace was retrieved.
* While still a Republic (mostly), in [[Real Life]], Roman Consuls (whom scholars of the Roman constitution agreed had "kingly" authority, i.e. equivalent to the authority of the old Kings of Rome) could have men called ''lictors'' walk with them bearing scepters called ''[
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