My Lords,
I know that I am under a regency, but I hope you will forgive me for indulging myself in taking the opportunity to speak with you on this matter.
The proposal brought forward on behalf of the right honourable Lord of Szandoh – who I understand is too frail to travel to this Palace (I trust that you all will join me in praying for his health) – is one of great importance to me, as you may understand its implications on my own person.
When you, my Lords, entrusted me to be your prince, I had been acting as an adult under Natopian and Shirerithian law. I brought together the constitutional convention, after forty years of disarray and dysfunctional government in these lands. And yet, we draft a constitution that explicitly makes me a child for four more years. Yet, I represent one seat of ou rprincipality in the Greater Frenzy. The various regulations on majority are in conflict with one another. In so, I fully support this proposal.
I see however that the Constitution that we wrote and enacted together prohibits any constitutional changes relating to the Prince himself for the duration of a regency. As such, we are at a conundrum here.
Might I offer a compromise, which I hope, with respect to my Lords and the Lady Regent herself – who has diligently governed these lands as viceroy much longer than any prince or other lord over these lands – would accept, and that is that perhaps I may be represented by a Regent much closer to my blood, family, species, and culture. That way, my interests as prince and Lord of Kigazeki may be placed in great security and trust for the duration of this extended childhood of mine. In that respect, I would like to nominate my cousins Prince David of Shireroth, and Princess Abigail, Princess of Rimarima, who I am confident would see much pleasure in catering for my interests as prince and lord of Kigazeki. Perhaps under a regency of either of them, the much needed enactment of regulations and appointments of lords for the vacant lordships, as well as the recognition of other de facto lords, so far unrecognized in the law of the principality, might be brought to closure.
It is with the greatest respect for the Lady Regent – who has, after all, governed these lands much longer than any one else – and for my most honourable Lords, that I speak. And should I in any way be out of place or turn, may I be sufficiently rebuked – as the child that I appear to be – in the ways of our lands.