People say living in Canberra can be
dull, but I’ve decided the next few months are a chance to inhabit a world that
appears to be a combination of Elizabethan politics and Westeros.
To whit: the rule of the redheaded and
childless queen Julia Gloriana (Juliana?) is undermined by rumours that she
knifed the previous ruler, a mercurial and strange albino whose ghostly
presence refuses to depart this earthly realm.
Betwixt assassination attempts by her
own advisers the queen is forced to defend herself from the one with the
sobriquet of The Mad Monk, who stands against the age of reform with a growing
power base of conservatism.
