What do you mean? A monarch is generally addressed as ‘Majesty’ or ‘(Royal) Highness’ (depending on rank), the Pope is addressed as ‘Holiness’. ‘Excellency’ is generally used for civil titles; I don’t think it’s strange to use ‘Excellency’ for the President of the European Commission. What would you use otherwise, ‘Miss President’ or something? That seems really over the top to me.
Yep, genuinely only ever heard it when talking in a monarchic context, about kings/queens, Lords/Ladies and such, and in a Church context - as mentioned, when referring to the Pope, and Archbishops and such (remembered this latter part only now that I thought about it again).
Funny, “Excellency” is what feels over the top to me, but may be due to the contexts in which I’ve heard it used - circumstances which have much more pomp and pageantry associated with them.
Anyway, thank you! Learn something new every day!
(yep, still me, this is my second account, trouble getting into the other one, for some reason)
What do you mean? A monarch is generally addressed as ‘Majesty’ or ‘(Royal) Highness’ (depending on rank), the Pope is addressed as ‘Holiness’. ‘Excellency’ is generally used for civil titles; I don’t think it’s strange to use ‘Excellency’ for the President of the European Commission. What would you use otherwise, ‘Miss President’ or something? That seems really over the top to me.
Yep, genuinely only ever heard it when talking in a monarchic context, about kings/queens, Lords/Ladies and such, and in a Church context - as mentioned, when referring to the Pope, and Archbishops and such (remembered this latter part only now that I thought about it again).
Funny, “Excellency” is what feels over the top to me, but may be due to the contexts in which I’ve heard it used - circumstances which have much more pomp and pageantry associated with them.
Anyway, thank you! Learn something new every day!
(yep, still me, this is my second account, trouble getting into the other one, for some reason)