The going native thing helped me make sense of the Walsingham reference. Elizabeth I fetched him back from exile (in Germany I think) to advise her and I was having trouble with all the "You have no idea how naive you are" stuff from DH until I realized that that's the tack an experienced advisor might take with a young headstrong queen (Adelle might not be young but she certainly qualifies as headstrong.
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The going native thing helped me make sense of the Walsingham reference. Elizabeth I fetched him back from exile (in Germany I think) to advise her and I was having trouble with all the "You have no idea how naive you are" stuff from DH until I realized that that's the tack an experienced advisor might take with a young headstrong queen (Adelle might not be young but she certainly qualifies as headstrong.