All those lessons in courtly etiquette had to have been good for something, right?

[It is hard to keep up his serious facade, if he ever managed it to begin with, but he makes a valiant effort nonetheless.]

No. Which is why, I suppose, he left so many courtly duties to his most gracious eldest son. Don't you think?

[Especially not when it came to those outside the family...]

Took it? Or had to pick up an abundance of it to make up for the lack of it in my brothers?