Mr Scanlon could not, though he wanted no photographers to snap him in his ermine robes.
But the ruder lot nowadays demand more than gilt and ermine to relieve their boredom or prolong their attention.
The SNP has a policy which prevents Nationalists, however distinguished, from donning ermine.
The 16ft-long (4.9m) silk velvet and ermine robe is the centrepiece of the Dress for Excess exhibition at the Royal Pavilion, opening on Saturday.
It's as if the pope with absolute rule, a throne, pomp and circumstance taps into a repressed fantasy of crowns and ermine.
Benedict, intent on reconnecting with and drawing strength from the church's deep traditions, revived the use of ornate vestments, such as an ermine-trimmed cape.
Initially archaeologists believed the remains could have been a Roman service station, providing food for travellers on Ermine Street, the road between London and York.
Peter's Basilica without the ermine-rimmed red velvet cape, or mozzetta, used by popes past for official duties, wearing instead the simple white cassock of the papacy.
With a huge majority in the Commons, the government will be able to use the Parliament Act to force hereditaries to mothball their ermine by early in 2000.
And by that stage the new peers in the interim House of Lords will have grown comfortable in their ermine, and could be reluctant to make way for a reformed chamber.
The Mother-in-Law was a spangly shrine to the singer who dubbed himself "Emperor of the World, " wore an ermine-trimmed cape and opened his act with the trademark scream "Burn, K-Doe, burn!"
Ermine Farms Ltd said it was looking to improve the sustainability and long-term financial viability of its business and did not think proposal represented a prominent or visually intrusive feature on the landscape.
In the same year that Britain's last prime minister but one was born, HRH Queen Elizabeth II was being crowned in fur, ermine and a very heavy crown, set, in some pictures, at a slightly jaunty angle.
"The media have nothing better to do, " Mr. Gammarelli said while taking a break from an interview on Friday to watch animal-rights activists gather outside his store to protest the inclusion of ermine robes in the pope's wardrobe.
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Brass bands and bunting, anthems and ermine - Britain will be garlanded in red, white and (this year at least) blue as the Olympics and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee coincide to celebrate our sovereignty in extravagant and ostentatious style.
Which leads to the trickle-up theory: couture, being about lasting luxury instead of fashion fads, doesn't set trends but rather picks them up by osmosis, and last March the ready-to-wear shows were full to the brim with furs, from Ann Demeulemeester's cave-woman wraps to Amanda Wakeley's ermine jumper to Fendi's furs-that-didn't-look-like-furs (they looked like hobo patchwork coats, chunky grandma jumpers, and velvet skirts).
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