Order of the Elephant current form on 1 December 1693 by King Christian V as having only one class consisting of only 30 noble knights in addition to the Grand Master (i.e., the king) and his sons. The statutes of the order were amended in 1958 by a Royal Ordinance so that both men and women could be members of the order. The elephant and castle design derives from an elephant carrying a howdah, the familiar castle replacing the unfamiliar howdah, and finds use elsewhere in European iconography, as discussed at howdah. The Danish monarch is the head of the order. The members of
The Back Seat of My Car criticism McCartney was receiving in the aftermath of the Beatles breakup, this line sounds more like a "statement of personal intent" than the declaration of love it could be in the context of the song's lyrics themselves. In a contemporary review for "RAM", Jon Landau of "Rolling Stone" described "The Back Seat of My Car" as one of only two good songs he enjoyed on the album, the other being "Eat at Home". Landau further described the song as "the album's production number". Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said the song demonstrated the "imaginative and gorgeous" arrangements on "Ram"