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
Seeing the elephant The brothel elephant can also be "seen" in the movie "Moulin Rouge!" as courtesan Satine's business and living quarters. Maybe coincidentally or perhaps a remnant of the 19th century elephant idiom, the 20th century euphemism "seeing pink elephants" is a term to denote drunk hallucinations. This may link back to the use of the term in Western saloons where patrons would drink alcoholic beverages in hopes of seeing the elephant. Also meaningful is the link between the pink elephants as a hallucination and the 19th century elephant as a mythical elephant that never appeared in tangible form but as an