Viceroy?

 Further to yesterday's post, my blog friend Patrick Kurp (of the incomparable Anecdotal Evidence) has an intriguing theory about that butterfly in the King's portrait. Could it be, he wonders, a Viceroy, a butterfly that mimics the Monarch and is almost identical to it? If so, rather than being a simple visual pun (or symbol of the King's love of nature), that butterfly could be carrying a coded message from the famously insecure King – that he feels himself to be a viceroy, a stand-in, a place-holder, rather than a real monarch like... well, obviously, like his mother, the late Queen, who reigned for so long and in such exemplary style. For Charles perhaps, it's always going to be a case of 'The Queen is dead, long live the Queen!'