Further to King’s snub to Tun is payback time, where I reported that the word in KL was that unhappiness with Tun’s attitude towards the sultans (and Pahang’s royalty in particular) played a big part in the king declaring that Mr Muhyiddin had the numbers to be sworn in as the country’s eighth prime minister. It wasn’t that the king couldn’t count
Mustafa Izzuddin, from NUS, thinks the king did no wrong:
“The King cannot make political decisions,” says Mustafa Izzuddin at the National University of Singapore.
“But he can play the role of honest broker, bringing the warring sides together. Even then it is unprecedented for a king to do so in Malaysia.
“But Malaysian politics are in uncharted waters, so revolutionary methods may have been necessary. And the King may have seen Muhyiddin as the most trustworthy and steady of the candidates.”
He can look forward to a royal honour if Tun and gang cannot unseat Muhyiddin.
Thoughts of a Cynical Investor 
Wikipedia – Sir is a formal English honorific address for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men titled knights i.e. of orders of chivalry, and later also to baronets, and other offices.