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* When a monarchy is deposed, the surviving head of the family will often style himself or herself the sovereign in pretence - in other words, the pretender to the throne. Almost every former monarchy has at least one pretender, and some have more: France has three, one from each royal family (Bonapartist, Orleanist, and Legitimist).
* The Roman Catholic Church requires that certain positions in the Vatican administration be held by bishops. But a bishop is supposed to be the head of a diocese, and a bishopric in a real diocese is a full-time job. The church instead assigns bishops intended to work in the Vatican to a "titular see", which is a diocese that's no longer extant. (Most are located in the Middle East or North Africa, areas that were wholly Christian before the advent of Islam.) The best-known titular bishop might be Nicolaus Steno (aka Neils Stensen), the Titular Bishop of Titiopolis, a geologist and the subject of an essay by Stephen Jay Gould.
* In Pre-Norman England the Cinque Ports ("five ports", because there were originally five) made a treaty with the king to supply ships for defense in return for internal self-determination as well as various and sundry privileges some rather arcane. The royal official in charge of this arrangement was the Warden of the Cinque Ports. After the Conquest the deal was continued because both parties liked the arrangement. After a standing Royal Navy became the core of British naval defense this became obsolete, and the
* He did indeed serve in the U.S. Army, but Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of KFC, was not a Colonel in any military sense. Rather, he was a Kentucky Colonel, a title of honor in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, given by the governor and the secretary of state to individuals in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments and outstanding service to a community, state, or the nation. Sanders was given the honor twice for his work in the food industry. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Colonel More info on it here.]
* [[wikipedia:Yahya Jammehc|His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh Esquire]]. The despotic "president" of Gambia did indeed rule the small nation until 2017, but most of those titles were made up, as he had the odd habit of inventing honors to bestow upon himself. incidentally, he also claimed he would rule Gambia for a billion years or until Allah told him otherwise.<ref>Apparently, Allah dropped him a line.</ref>
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