The Emperors, No Clothes: a Party fable

In Hans Christian Andersen’s parable of power, pride and slavish self-deception, The Emperor's New Clothes, the emperor is himself among the suckers duped into believing the “uncommonly fine” fabric made for him by two swindlers is the real stuff. As everyone doubtless knows, the tale ends with the emperor making a grand procession before the townsfolk without a thread to conceal his nakedness.