Cupid

cthia wrote:There is NO way the Ballroom would carry out the assassination of the only parent of rightful heirs to the Earldom. That would surely be a galactic scandal and it would cause major tension between Torch and Manticore.

I will agree that the Ballroom would not assassinate a woman pregnant of a child. They may even give her a stay of execution for the first few years after child birth, for the good of the babe in arms.

But after that, she's fair game, parent to someone important or not.

cthia wrote:

tlb wrote:I think this suggestion is even less likely than Georgia and Jeremy united by Cupid.

Why is that? Do you seriously doubt the power of love?

Because the "suggestion even less likely" we're talking about is that Queen Elizabeth III and Empress Elizabeth I would choose to bestow the title. She's happily married to Justin, so it wouldn't be an act of love. That leaves reason or politics. So what possible reason would Beth have to do this to Georgia? Even assuming she knows nothing about her past as Elaine or the past before that as a turncoat to slaves, Beth had already had plenty of reasons to despite Lady North Hollow. Stubborn Beth is likely to be the last one resisting doing this and bestowing titles is a royal prerogative, particularly for titles merged to the Crown (which are her titles, not newly created ones).

I think this has an even less likelihood of occurring than the Sun suddenly starting to rise in the West.

ThinksMarkedly wrote:I think this has an even less likelihood of occurring than the Sun suddenly starting to rise in the West.

Well, the sun should start rising in the magnetic west whenever Earth's magnetic poles next flip -- so that's just a matter of time.

(Though it may be a slow enough process not to count as "suddenly")

tlb wrote:I think this suggestion is even less likely than Georgia and Jeremy united by Cupid.

cthia wrote:Why is that? Do you seriously doubt the power of love?

ThinksMarkedly wrote:Because the "suggestion even less likely" we're talking about is that Queen Elizabeth III and Empress Elizabeth I would choose to bestow the title. She's happily married to Justin, so it wouldn't be an act of love. That leaves reason or politics. So what possible reason would Beth have to do this to Georgia? Even assuming she knows nothing about her past as Elaine or the past before that as a turncoat to slaves, Beth had already had plenty of reasons to despite Lady North Hollow. Stubborn Beth is likely to be the last one resisting doing this and bestowing titles is a royal prerogative, particularly for titles merged to the Crown (which are her titles, not newly created ones).

What's "love" got to do with it? (Tina Turner)

Lady Georgia Young was a power within the High Ridge government, which the Queen despised, and with Beth's capacity to remember things that displeased her; that is another reason why she would never elevate Georgia. From chapter 5 of War of Honor:

Before her marriage to him, Georgia Young—the former Georgia Sakristos—had been a senior aide to both Dmitri and Pavel, however. Officially, she'd been their security chief, but it was common knowledge, though never openly discussed, that she'd actually been the "dirty tricks" specialist for both of them, which was the reason High Ridge had selected her to chair the Conservative Association's Policy Coordination Committee. The fact that placing her at the head of the PCC might also help bind her loyalties to the Association's current leadership had played a not insignificant part in his decision, and while he was never likely to forget she was a two-edged sword, it had worked out well so far.