The former Tsar is revealed as a capricious weakling, a characterless, colourless nonentity. The former was, though, by no means a despicable nonentity like Olga Ivanovna. He uses every device of language to express absolute nonentity. He played "Edward Catflap", a coarse, drunken minder of light-entertainment nonentity "Richie Rich". As Dame Edna Everage once remarked&colon; "celebrity is the new nonentity". The net result, they allege, made Whitehead a virtual nonentity in aviation history. The assembly of ambassadors was repeatedly overruled and became a nonentity. Steven Runciman calls him a "deliberate nonentity". Finally Lankester was appointed instead of Lazarus Fletcher (a relative nonentity). Since Will and Toby regard Russell as a nonentity, they have difficulty preparing proper remarks. Very, Maurepas proposed to the king as his successor a nonentity named Amelot. The Official Historian Edmonds later described him as "a complete nonentity".