When you retire, everybody is very nice about you. I still have the speeches and citations and stuff and look at them occasionally to reminisce about how easy it was to make a difference.

Alas, no longer.

I’ve had to make a few speeches myself. At the final one, I had an important princess sitting in the front row, and that was intimidating.

“I understand you are not politically correct,” she said when I was introduced to her before my speech.