| The principle was sound: since the days of Spanish viceroys who ruled half of South America from Lima, Peru has been over-centralised. |
| These viceroys have in fact twice in the last century exercised their vice-regal powers to dismiss elected governments! |
| He filled the largely ceremonial post, which comes with the 340-room palace built for Britain's last viceroys, with distinction. |
| Further studies suggest that some monarchs and some viceroys are palatable, while others are not. |
| Kipling mocked the place, viceroys and vicereines hated it, but here the British rulers of India spent most of their imperial century. |
| The British named most of them after British kings and queens and viceroys. |
