flummery

All of this flummery is going to irritate another part of a modern state opening of Parliament - anti-monarchy protesters who believe that such royal involvement should be removed from a democracy.

Look carefully and some guide to the reign to come will be seen behind the flummery and pomp.

And it raises the question of whether a brand can succeed simply by presenting the goods, without flummery.

"But he really just wanted to cut through all the flummery and get people to see him for what he was."

In his biography, Andrew Morton wrote that Diana was “deeply disenchanted with the protocol, the flummery and the artifice” of the family, and “the brittle formality” of royal life.