Caught a servant teaching one of the kitchen boys how to read by candlelight tonight. The boy was struggling over a book of old ballads. I... may have 'accidentally' dropped a small purse of coins near the doorway on my way past. It’s nothing. A prince sees nothing, says nothing. But the sound of that boy's laugh when he finally got a line right... it echoed louder in these halls than any herald's trumpet ever has.

Sometimes the most royal decree is the one you never sign.