[ Words still fail her at this news. It isn't as reassuring as it should be, but then she thinks this is all her fault. And maybe Henry's fault as well for not trying harder to find Elizabeth a husband, not that she'd ever utter such words against her king.

She needs to remind herself this is a dream. A dream, a dream, a dream. But she doesn't know what a Prime Minister is, and still feels pangs in her gut as she lets him go and turns away, voice deadpan. ]

From how it sounds, there is nothing left to be loyal to. As to be expected, nobody would take a female monarch seriously. The fools. Is it any wonder that they found a way to make her even less powerful?