Both her eyebrows rose, listening to her, and she couldn't help it, she started to laugh, her head going back with it before she controlled it again. Smirking widely for a moment.

"I merely asked a question, I did not think it rude. If it is then you have my apologies." The hypocrisy made her teeth hurt. "I will admit, his measure was harsh, had I a say in it, it wouldn't of been, but I'm frequently told I am too soft and, alas the power is not mine to tell the General what to do." She wasn't any more, that was for sure. "But this isn't a government, none of us have position, and I at least know how to conduct myself in a manner befitting those around me, and the place I find myself in." The smirk left her then. "Because contrary to your assumptions, though I am daughter of a King, I have not always been treated as such. Rags were what I spent my childhood in, and it's from near execution I took my place as Queen. That is why I know how to act accordingly, dear lady."

She didn't move, didn't raise her voice, still stayed in her seat like this was the most normal conversation in the world. And for Elizabeth at least it was, oddly, it was like dealing with her privy chamber. "But it seems, whatever happened to you, you learned nothing of humility."