Remember, being a key decision-maker does not make you an emperor.

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Early Welsh texts do not refer to him as a king, but as an emperor or war leader.

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For the next eleven Ceasars, there was not instance where a father was able to make his son an emperor.

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But later, when George V visited India in person to be crowned emperor, he made the mistake of riding on a mere horse, which was not at all how an oriental potentate was expected to travel.

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