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In 1581, after having "fun" on the high seas in "exotic lands", back home Sir Walter Raleigh became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. A famous story tells how Raleigh spread his cloak across a puddle so her majesty could walk over it without retaining water in her shoes. Improving on his 'valiant and cloak-spoiling' incident Raleigh invented the first recorded act of chivalry towards 'E. the First' during a pleasant promenade along a corridor in her majesty's palace. Raleigh, who encountered the door first, decided spontaneously that instead of letting it close in her majesty's face, he should position his body (it has been speculated using his arm) so that she could pass through, thus exerting minimum royal effort.

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  • In 1581, after having "fun" on the high seas in "exotic lands", back home Sir Walter Raleigh became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. A famous story tells how Raleigh spread his cloak across a puddle so her majesty could walk over it without retaining water in her shoes. Improving on his 'valiant and cloak-spoiling' incident Raleigh invented the first recorded act of chivalry towards 'E. the First' during a pleasant promenade along a corridor in her majesty's palace. Raleigh, who encountered the door first, decided spontaneously that instead of letting it close in her majesty's face, he should position his body (it has been speculated using his arm) so that she could pass through, thus exerting minimum royal effort.
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  • In 1581, after having "fun" on the high seas in "exotic lands", back home Sir Walter Raleigh became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. A famous story tells how Raleigh spread his cloak across a puddle so her majesty could walk over it without retaining water in her shoes. Improving on his 'valiant and cloak-spoiling' incident Raleigh invented the first recorded act of chivalry towards 'E. the First' during a pleasant promenade along a corridor in her majesty's palace. Raleigh, who encountered the door first, decided spontaneously that instead of letting it close in her majesty's face, he should position his body (it has been speculated using his arm) so that she could pass through, thus exerting minimum royal effort. The incident of the door has been forgotten but the cloak story's in now prominent in Anglo-Saxon consciousness, most likely due to it being included in Raleigh's Coat of Arms. The creator of the coat of arms recorded that 'The door didn't fit with the conceptualisation we were going for' in his estate records and thus it wasn't included. Apparently the puddle did.
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