647 News of Rivalry

The lunch meeting that day was somewhat less formal than the one the day before. Instead of a wide variety of the nobles from the kingdom, there were a lot of city business people that had been invited to dine with the Royals.

That was a great honour for most of them, as the Royal Palace wasn't an easy place to get an invitation to, and the day's crowd included all the largest bankers, financiers, and international importers in the nation.

Most of them were not from the Palace region, and they had travelled quite a distance to come celebrate the return of the Queen. These ones should be somewhat more loyal to the crown than the nobles who had been forced to be here, and who had often been visibly upset about her return on the first day, before they managed to regain their composure.