Sir Richard Wingfield, writing from Oudenarde, 28 October 1521, reported that Knight was to take his place as ambassador to the emperor, but it seems that the emperor objected to his low birth, and expressed a preference for Sir Robert Wingfield.
Japanese press reports said the emperor and Empress Michiko were originally due to visit the site June 24, the last day of their two week trip, to lay a wreath and express their condolences for the victims of the raid.
The emperor and empress would have laid a wreath and expressed their condolences for the victims of the raid if they visited the USS Arizona memorial.
Maintaining the food supply to the city of Rome had become a major political issue in the late Republic, and continued to be one of the main ways the emperor expressed his relationship to the Roman people.
But though the alien emperor had expressed surprise and dismay at the terrible attack, he claimed no knowledge about the matter.
'The emperor himself has frequently expressed interest in just such a project.'
While they were engaged thus, the emperor, remembering that he was about to pass on to a higher life, expressed a desire to enter the Church.
In a letter to Knyaz Boris, the Byzantine emperor expressed his disapproval of Bulgaria's religious reorientation by using offensive language against the Roman Church.
The emperor expressed an interest in seeing a model of the building, and a plaster scale model (2 cm per meter) was constructed by Louis Villeminot between April 1862 and April 1863 at a cost of more than 8,000 francs.
The emperor offered his condolences and expressed the hope that such atrocities would never be repeated.