Historical clue formulations

• Prepare to be knighted — 2025-12-16
• Genuflect — 2025-07-02
• Show obeisance, in a way — 2025-03-22
• Prepare to pop the question — 2024-04-28
• Show submission, in a way — 2022-11-06
• Show obeisance — 2020-04-08
• Take a stand by not standing — 2018-09-05
• Prepare to be knighted — 2017-09-18
• Get ready to be dubbed — 2017-08-27
• Prepare to be knighted — 2017-08-08
• Pay homage, in a way — 2016-03-25
• Prepare to tie a shoelace, say — 2015-05-31
• Prepare to be knighted — 2015-01-20
• Genuflect — 2014-02-23
• Prepare for prayer — 2013-10-21
• Request at a palace, maybe — 2013-04-05
• Prepare to propose, perhaps — 2012-04-02
• Prepare for gardening, maybe — 2011-12-16
• Queen's request, maybe — 2011-07-24
• Prepare for a dubbing — 2010-10-17
• Use a prie-dieu — 2009-05-06
• Prepare to propose — 2007-10-02
• Queen's request — 2006-02-23
• Show subservience — 2005-12-29
• Prepare to pop the question — 2005-03-07
• Prepare to be knighted — 2003-11-19
• Use a prayer rug, e.g. — 2002-04-28
• Cry to a slave — 2002-04-06
• Use a prie-dieu — 2002-01-15
• Be in an altared state? — 2000-11-12
• Get down in church — 2000-07-08
• Show obeisance — 1998-10-25
• Prepare to be knighted — 1998-06-30
• Use a prie-dieu — 1997-09-21
• Show respect, in a way — 1997-04-05
• Prepare to propose — 1996-12-22
• Kowtow (to) — 1995-07-16
• Pay obeisance — 1995-02-12
• Pay homage to — 1994-01-01