PRIVILEGES OF THE KING.
There is always a certain satisfaction to be derived from viewing matters as they appear from the eminence of the seats of the mighty. "If I were King" echoes from the thwarted ambition of childhood, and is uttered sometimes by the ripened experience of matuie age. But even a King is by no means a free agent, particularly in these, enlightened days of rigid constitutions and of conventionalities almost as immutable as the'laws of the Medes and Peisianß. The privileges of our own Sovereign doubtless are many, would have far-reaching effects, some of them, if he chose to indulge them to the fullest extent. But on the oiher_ hand, there are many
things that are denied to him which rank among the most ordinary rights of commoners. At the same time, the yoke of kingly officii is made to
lie upon his shoulders as lightly as I possible, particularly in the smaller matters of daily life, .b'or example (although this cannot properly be considered as a trifler, the King pays no rates and taxes. Other members of the Royal Family are not similarly exempted, however, and must render unto the modern equivalent of Caesar some portion of their substance for I the upkeep of the State.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10030, 2 July 1910, Page 4
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210PRIVILEGES OF THE KING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10030, 2 July 1910, Page 4
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