HOW DID YOU BECOME KING? THE LADY OF THE LAKE, HER ARM CLAD IN THE PUREST SHIMMERING SAMITE, HELD ALOFT EXCALIBUR FROM THE BOSOM OF THE WATER SIGNIFYING BY DEVINE PROVIDENCE THAT I WAS TO CARRY EXCALIBUR. THAT IS WHY I AM KING. STRANGE WOMEN, LYING IN PONDS IS NO BASIS FOR A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT. SUPREME EXECUTIVE POWER DERIVES FROM A MANDATE OF THE MASSES, NOT FROM SOME FARCICAL AQUATIC CEREMONY; BE QUIET; YOU CAN'T EXPECT TO WIELD SUPREME EXECUTIVE POWER JUST 'CAUSE SOME WATERY TART THREW A SWORD AT YOU