"I'm sure our diplomats won't insult your King if they want their jobs. The politicians will for cheap points or because they genuinely hate your guts, but diplomats - and military officers with any sense of honor and respect - should be above that nonsense. If our ambassador breaks some unforgivable lines, then she's a fool that won't last long, or so I think that to be the case. But you're half-right: if you compare your King to the legendary Empress, the Founder of the New Empire, they won't want your head on a sapphire plate, they'll want your body in a table made out of detoxified rhenium, ha ha!"