Knight year after he was appointed Knight Bachelor, apparently somewhat to the consternation of officials at Buckingham Palace. A woman clerk in holy orders may be made a Dame in exactly the same way as any other woman since there are no military connotations attached to the honour. A clerk in holy orders who is a baronet is entitled to use the title Sir. Outside the British honours system it is usually considered improper to address a knighted person as 'Sir' or 'Dame'. Some countries, however, historically "did" have equivalent honorifics for knights, such as Cavaliere in Italy (e.g. "Cavaliere" Benito
The Ill-Made Knight The Ill-Made Knight "The Ill-Made Knight" is a fantasy novel by British writer T. H. White, the third book in the series "The Once and Future King". It was first published in 1940, but is usually found today only in collected editions of all four books of the novel. Much of "The Ill-Made Knight" takes place in the fabled Camelot. "The Ill-Made Knight" is based around the adventures, perils and mistakes of Sir Lancelot. Lancelot, despite being the bravest of the knights, is ugly, and ape-like, so that he calls himself the "Chevalier mal fet" - "The Ill-Made Knight". As