by Sir Conrad Corfield
' A certain tutor to our Royal Princes was once asked how he got his job. He is said to have replied, " By bowing lower than the others." I realised that the story was apocryphal when I became by accident Assistant Private Secretary to the Viceroy of India. Court etiquette was strictly observed in Viceregal circles and one of the first things I learned was that the Court bow was made only from the neck.'