The Queen of England: Coronation (Drabbles)

42. an echoing hallway full of chairs

The concept of precedence gave me no undue amount of stress.  Having not brought up within the never ending formality of the court, I certainly did not care whether or not I entered a room first or last.  Askew, of course, loved this sort of thing and was constantly reminding me that it would be a high insult to disrupt a system which had been in place since the 16th century.  Which is why I was currently looking at a long hallway, full of decorated chairs, wondering how many more times in my life I would see a similar view.