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 True History of the Elephant Man and Treves, beautifully written..." Arnold went on to say "This is surely the last word and the true version" of Merrick's story. Writing for "The New York Times", Anatole Broyard called the book "absorbing and well-balanced" and noted that it "corrects earlier versions of Merrick's life". The True History of the Elephant Man The True History of the Elephant Man is a biography of Joseph Merrick written by Michael Howell and Peter Ford. It was published in 1980 in London, by Allison & Busby. It was distributed in the United States by Schocken Books. A second edition was published in