EXCEEPT FOR the no doubt apocryphal 'You said a mouthful, Queen' variously attributed to Mrs. Mayor Hylan (to use a somewhat old-fashioned but useful Americanism) and to Mayor 'Jimmy' Walker,' the royal style has presented little difficulty to Americans-certainly none in the third person. It is true that during and immediately after the First World War the Kaiser was frequently referred to editorially as William (or Wilhelm) Hohenzollern (sometimes preceded by Mr.), the implication being, apparently, that for all his ancestors, his uniforms, and his fiercely upturned mustachios, he was really no better than, even if superficially somewhat different from, Mr. John Smith, American. But this was intentional perversity on the part of writers who knew perfectly well that dynastic names like Hohenzollern, Windsor, and Hapsburg are not the equivalent of surnames. Although it is unlikely that a majority of our citizens are aware of these facts, Americans are nevertheless given to referring to the British monarch as Queen Elizabeth, not as Elizabeth Windsor or Elizabeth Mountbatten (the styles are equally incongruous, inasmuch as Mountbatten is merely a partial translation of Battenberg, a dynastic name like Windsor). This is dictated largely by a tradition which is easy to follow, but also to some extent by an awesome respect for royalty as such. For there can be no serious doubt that, as Eleanor Roosevelt has written in This I Remember, 'Even in this country, where people have shed their blood to be independent of a king, there is still an awe of and an interest in royalty and the panoply which surrounds it.'2 The awe and the interest of which this great democrat writes are reflected, if somewhat distortedly, in the multiplicity of queens-with an occasional king--who adorn modem American life: apple blossom queens, bobsled queens, citrus queens, not to mention radio's 'Queen for a Day.' One can hardly throw a stone on the campus of an American coeducational institution without running the fearsome risk of hitting royalty of