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December 29, 2005
Life at Court
Life at court is not at all what I expected. From the outside, it seems rather quaint, tucked away in a small corner of the world, my Queen rules her fiefdom, grooms her heir, and she directs. But royal blood is not the thing to be envied as it once was, nor is being tucked away in a small corner of the world.
I have spent, with a small intermission, something on the order of twenty days here in her kingdom and I cannot help but feel is it killing me. I am fiercely democratic and, as such, cannot bear to have the smallest details of my life prescribed for me, down to the parking spot I may choose when parking. As I am not a citizen of this land, I have fewer rights than even the lowest of serfs. The Queen, though she may rule, cannot be seen subverting the order she has ordained, and thus I am secluded, hidden away from even the modest contact that this small hamlet can provide.
It is in this state that I remain, for a few days longer and I feel myself disintegrating. Worse, I can see the strain this puts on the Queen. Yet, as I'm sure you can imagine, public transport is nonexistent. So I am trapped here, a burden on myself and my queen, watching her esteem for me slip away by the moment and I am powerless to alter this circumstance. It is agony.
Even this correspondence must be cut short for fear of discovery, as this land is well policed. I shall try to deliver further communications to my dear readers before I am smuggled out in the dead of night, but I cannot guarantee anything.
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