[@Major Sharpe]
What do you think of a foreign ambassador of the queenly lass's former nation- presumably some fairly prosperous, if small, nation that focuses a bit more on academics and the like, more so than the rest of the world, considering she was sent there instead of anywhere else- trying to get in on the fact that she's more like them, rather than of her home country, and trying to get a share, a piece, of that fancy prosperous pie that is the empire overseas?

That is to say- another guy making a bid of being from the land the new queen had spent more of her time in?