"I will have to bring my father to justice,"  He said pulling out a piece of paper from inside his pocket and handing it to her.  "Here is a list of secrets and scandals about my family...with the kingdom already at the tipping point this will put the people in an uproar calling for my father's head. Naturally he will try to run and this is where I come in."  He smiled a little, "I will offer to assist him and bring him straight into the waiting arms of the people he has hurt so badly.  Whatever justice they meet out will be well deserved...I only hope they don't behead him." He shuddered a little at the thought then shook his head. "this will ascend me to the throne which I will return to it's rightful owner," he took her hands in his own again. No bloody massacres and tearing down of entire families...an elegant trap for an elegant new age."