This seems to me to a bit like a military sentry guarding a secured location, ordered to allow no one pass, but those on the list, refusing entry to a senior officer. If General "X" isn't on the list, the sentry is supposed to keep them out, whatever his or her rank. The General can order whoever makes the list put the General on it, and then enter, but can't order the sentry to admit them without being on the list.
If it was General Patton he would pull out his pistol and point it at the sentry’s head.
Today’s perfumed princes would say “Oh, OK”.
Lol.