matey

Everyone says “Aye, matey,” and just like that, I’m president of a brand-new club.

It doesn't match his public persona of the matey, personable, empathetic royal.

“You don’t get matey with the Queen,” recalled former British prime minister Tony Blair.

Former prime minister Tony Blair wrote in his memoirs, too, that she might be “matey with you, but don’t try to reciprocate or you get ‘The Look.’

He can be matey or imperious as the fancy takes him.