 The modern languages give unto such persons the name of "favorites", or privadoes ... .And we see plainly that this hath been done, not by weak and passionate princes only, but by the wisest and most politic that ever reigned; who have oftentimes joined to themselves some of their servants; whom both themselves have called friends, and allowed other likewise to call them in the same manner; using the word which is received between private men.Writing of George III's old tutor, John Stuart, who became Prime Minister.