What does "coming down from the crown" mean?
That year, the recently retired Admiral of the British Navy, John Arbuthnot
Fisher, wrote Churchill about rumors of new honorifics potentially
coming down from the crown. Specifically, per the OED, he
wrote: “I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—
O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)—Shower it on the Admiralty!”

What does "new honorifics potentially coming down from the crown" mean?

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What does "coming down from the crown" mean?
That year, the recently retired Admiral of the British Navy, John Arbuthnot
Fisher, wrote Churchill about rumors of new honorifics potentially
coming down from the crown. Specifically, per the OED, he
wrote: “I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—
O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)—Shower it on the Admiralty!”

What does "new honorifics potentially coming down from the crown" mean?

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I'm not British, but I assume it means that the king is about to create new honorary titles that can be bestowed on the navy.

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